A Mid-Century Childhood Coming Soon

 

My latest book, “A Mid-Century Childhood – Growing Up in Toronto's Lawrence Park” is almost finished. The book is a kind of Jeopardy for Grandchildren. It answers the questions that one of these days they may wish to ask. And when that time comes, I won't be around to answer. I'm sure we have all said, “How I wish I'd asked Grandma that”.

There is a decided focus on the neighbourhood I grew up in, namely Lawrence Park, which these days is practically mid-town Toronto. But in the 1940s and 1950s it was a suburb on the edge of the city.

There are chapters on food and shopping, church and Christmas, birthdays and bedtime, school and school yard games amongst others. And I've written a little about my immediate family to illustrate how different their ordinary lives were, in the middle of the last century.