Homework
A Memoir
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Homework
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Geoff Dyer
About this listen
In Homework, Geoff Dyer reflects on his childhood and what it means to come of age in England in the 60s and 70s, in a country shaped by the aftermath of the Second World War but accelerating towards change.
He was born in Cheltenham in the late fifties, the only child of a dinner lady and a planning engineer. Raised in a working-class area, Geoff and his mates found much joy recreating battles with their beloved Tommy guns, kicking a beachball around until its untimely death, and collecting anything and everything they could find; football cards, conkers and Action Man figures. When Geoff passes his 11-plus exams he gets in to a Cheltenham Grammar School, a school which drastically changes the trajectory of his life.
©2025 Geoff Dyer (P)2025 Canongate Books LtdCritic Reviews
'Moving, atmospheric, truthful, perceptive and hilariously funny - I loved it: a piece of our English history, the story of a vanished time, which feels close at hand but thoroughly gone. What a story. What a great story' (TESSA HADLEY)
'A wonderfully immersive portrait - observant, funny, touching - of a sixties childhood and seventies adolescence in provincial England, as Geoff Dyer takes us deep into a world only barely recognisable now' (DAVID KYNASTON)