Is the Vicar in, Pet?
From the Pit to the Pulpit – My Childhood in a Geordie Vicarage

Excellent autobiography, very well written. A very interesting tale about growing up in a vicarage in the heart of a mining village. Barbara describes very well how the vicar's family life isn't their own, in the sense that not only is "Dad" also the vicar and at everyone's beck and call both physic......more

A memoir about growing up in the 1970s in the Geordie mining "village" of Ashington, where the author's father was vicar. The parts that dealt with life in the vicarage and the coming and goings of parishioners who embrace the whole family were the most interesting - from the title, I'd expected mor......more

A pleasant memoir of life as a vicar's daughter in Ashington in the 70's when it was still " the biggest pit village ". She tells of the comings and goings of vicarage life and of her efforts to fit in at a school where every other child had a father who worked in the pit.......more

I loved this book - however, you need to know that Barbara and I have been friends for as long as we both can remember - in the 1970s our Dad's were both Church of England priests in neighbouring parishes, our families went on holiday together and we remain friends today. For me this is a trip down......more