'Honest, grippingly readable, funny and uplifting' - MAGGIE GEE, OBE

'[Salena's] writing is urgent and detailed, colourful and clamorous. Like all love stories, her memoir is intense, intimate' - IAIN FINLAYSON

'Throughout, Godden writes about a past that is at once deeply personal yet also belongs to the everyman figure; her descriptions of childhood are simultaneously timeless and yet rooted in a particular period of British history' - DEBJANI BISWAS-HAWKES

'A lyrical and witty memoir painting a portrait of the artist as a young girl . . Springfield Road's prose wavers effortlessly throughout, from tender poignancy to raw, gritty realism and this lovely book serves to remind us that however much the world has changed in the last forty years, in many ways it is still exactly the same' - LEE BULLMAN

'Salena Godden is an absolute master of, knowing your assumptions, playing to them, and then flipping them completely' - LAURA TAYLOR

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