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  • Dragged up Proppa

  • Growing up in Britain’s Forgotten North
  • By: Pip Fallow
  • Narrated by: Pip Fallow
  • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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By: Pip Fallow
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Publisher's Summary

Dragged Up Proppa, read by the author, is the story of growing up working class in a forgotten England.

Pip Fallow was born in the coal-miner’s cottage where his family of eight lived, in a village near Durham. Pip was destined to join his father down the pit, but the closure of his village’s mine in the 1980s saw him at the back of the dole queue like the rest. This is Pip’s story of being ‘dragged up proppa’, living by his wits, working and travelling the world before finally settling a few miles from where he grew up.

A lot has been written about the red wall in recent years but Pip Fallow has lived it. This is his account of some of the most important issues affecting Britain today; from levelling-up and the north-south divide, to social mobility and class, and the devastating social upheaval caused by decades of deindustrialization and government neglect. Showing how broken promises of the past impact his village and the politics of today.

This is the memoir of a man who left school illiterate, but has now written a book. The story of a lost generation who were prepared for a life that had disappeared by the time they were ready for it, of communities with once strong social ties that have now disintegrated, and a way of living that simply no longer exists in Britain today.

©2023 Christopher Fallow (P)2023 Macmillan Publishers International Limited

Critic Reviews

"Very compelling, beautifully written memoir of a time and England that no longer exists but remains just as important today as ever." (Sebastian Payne, author of Broken Heartlands)

"Fallow's memoir is not just a classic piece of working-class writing, but a truly gripping narrative." (Brian Groom, author of Northerners: A History)

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Dragged up Proppa

As a lass that grew up in a small mining village in North East England, this pulls on my heart strings in many ways. The good times, the bad times, and the undeniable abuse and misconduct from the Tory government.
Pip captures life and brings it alive so well with his words. The times were hard, but our folk were hard, and fought harder!
To this day, despite the difficulties and challenges of employment and daily living, the people of the north are some of the happiest, positive minded and friendly of folk you’ll ever meet.
READ THIS BOOK- or stick your earbuds in…it will most definitely give a laugh, a tear and a slice of education.
Bravo, Pip!! Looking forward to the next one:)

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