- Published: 24 April 2014
- ISBN: 9781448171644
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 320
Hippy Dinners
A memoir of a rural childhood
- Published: 24 April 2014
- ISBN: 9781448171644
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 320
Charged with delicious quirky wit and a joyful celebration of the ordinary, this is an irresistible account of a child's passage towards the adult world.
Rachel Joyce
Hippy Dinners is an absolute joy ... It is both sweetly moving and killingly funny.
Horatio Clare
Shot through with wit that is at once knife-sharp and full of warmth, HIPPY DINNERS recreates the fragile, half-understood world of childhood with glorious polaroid immediacy. I loved it.
Christopher Wakling
Spot on and very funny about desperately wanting to be normal.
Nina Stibbe, Author of Love, Nina
An outstanding debut, and a wonderfully antidote to misery memoirs. Hippy Dinners is so good, so funny, so true. Abbie Ross has a pitch perfect ear and eye for how children distort and magnify life , how they talk to each other, their humiliations and joys.
Julia Gregson, Author of Jasmine Nights
Ross’s vivid evocation of a Seventies childhood ... has great charm. Anyone who grew up in the era of Benny Hill, cheesecloth and Charlie’s Angels will find it irresistible.
Jane Shilling, Daily Mail
An irresistible childhood memoir [and] a brilliant evocation of a particular period in the early 70s – a world of cheesecloth, home-made brown bread and John Craven’s Newsround. Warm, laugh-out-loud, enchanting - read it now!
Good Housekeeping
The characters are fondly drawn - particularly little Philip.
The Sunday Times
An astute portrait of the realities of 'a simple life' and rich with detail and full of heart.
The Lady
A sweet-natured memoir... Ross is excellent at conveying her desire to conform...Hippy Dinners deftly conveys the child's sense of powerlessness and confusion in a world she - and worse even the adults around her - can't control.
Victoria Segal, Guardian
A sweet-natured memoir... Ross is excellent at conveying her desire to conform...Hippy Dinners deftly conveys the child's sense of powerlessness and confusion in a world she - and worse even the adults around her - can't control.
Victoria Segal, Guardian
Made me laugh out loud
Kate Hamer - author of The Girl with the Red Coat, Financial Times