A Good Cluttering

A Good ClutteringYoung Vinnie Jackson comes from a loving and happy northern family in the harsh times of the 1950s. But he knows that if he crosses or upsets an adult, hell be on the receiving end of a good cluttering a local term for the slaps or beatings meted out to children by parents, teachers, even complete strangers in those days, if behaviour was unacceptable. For Vinnie, life at school was a constant battle with the vicious teachers and where leisure time,

Young Vinnie Jackson comes from a loving and happy northern family in the harsh times of the 1950Õs. But he knows that if he crosses or upsets an adult, heÕll be on the receiving end of Ôa good clutteringÕ Ð a local term for the slaps or
beatings meted out to children by parents, teachers, even complete strangers in those days, if behaviour was unacceptable.

For Vinnie, life at school was a constant battle with the vicious teachers and where leisure time, playing in the mills or by the canal, was both exciting and dangerous. Often just out of nowhere, Vinnie finds himself in some tricky and desperate situations!

Can he better his arch rival, Fuzzy Finnegan? Will he escape the attentions of the dreaded dentist? And will ÔChickÕ, his class teacher, finally beat him into submission? Vinnie needs all his bravery and guile to cope with all that life throws at him in his incident-packed daily life.