One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On

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A] compelling story of overcoming adversity… Unexpectedly fascinating… amazingly inspiriting…’— The Observer Wes Streeting joined The Graham Norton Radio Show with Waitrose to talk about the importance of state education and his new book. Politicos sells political ephemera, gifts, memorabilia and books. It is operated and curated by LBC radio presenter and political commentator Iain Dale. In One Boy, Two Bills & A Fry Up he brings to life the poverty, humiliation and incredible struggle for them choosing whether to feed the meter and heat the flat, put carpet on the floor, or food on the table. Wes Streeting knows it was the help and inspiration he received from the great characters that surrounded him, especially his paternal grandfather (also called Bill), that ultimately set him on the way to Cambridge and then Parliament. He knew he could draw on the strengths in childhood to eventually come out, and to go on and face his now successful struggle with kidney cancer. This honest, uplifting, affectionate memoir is a tribute to the love and support which set him on his way out of poverty, and informs everything about Wes Streeting's mission now in politics. A moving and inspiring hymn to the ups and downs of life - to love, to adversity and above all courage.' ---Michael Cashman

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