Teardrops on My Drum

The memoir of a sexually precocious boyhood in the docklands of 1920s Liverpool. "A fascinating autobiography with its evocative descriptions of life in the Liverpool of the 1920's" -- Time Out, London Liverpool in the 1920s: still Dickensian in its poverty, a city of docklands and back alleys, barefoot kids running wild in the filthy streets, bizarre eccentrics and sectarian violence. This is the world marvelously evoked by Jack Robinson in the story of his boyhood: forced to fend for himself from the earliest age, searching the city for adventure, love and sex, and joining the army as a 14-year-old boy soldier.