Listen free for 30 days
Listen with offer
-
A Crafty Cigarette
- Tales of a Teenage Mod: Foreword by John Cooper Clarke
- Narrated by: Richard Newland
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
99p for the first 3 months
A Crafty Cigarette
Buy Now for £14.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
Summary
A Crafty Cigarette is the powerful story of a teenager coming of age in the '70s as seen through his eyes; who, on the cusp of adulthood, discovers a band that is new to him, which leads him into becoming a Mod.
A mischievous youth prone to naughtiness, he takes to mod like a moth to a flame, which in turn gives him a voice, confidence, and a fresh new outlook towards life, his family, his school friends, girls, and the world in general. Growing up in Sunbury-on-Thames where he finds life rather dull and hard to make friends, he moves across the river with his family to Walton-on-Thames in 1979, the year of the Mod Revival, where to his delight he finds many other Mods his age and older, and slowly but surely he starts to become accepted....
Critic reviews
"'I couldn’t put it down because I couldn’t put it down." (John Cooper Clarke)
"A great debut that deals with the joys and pains of growing up." (Irvine Welsh)
"Crafty Cigarette, all things Mod and a dash of anarchy. Want to remember what it was like to be young and angry? Buy this book. A great read." (Phil Davis, actor Chalky in Quadrophenia)