Leonard Unsworth

Kenilworth Chapter Leonard Unsworth

It's the Sixties and Kenilworth lad, Lenny, finds himself out of school and jobless at fifteen. Kenilworth was not exactly a hotbed of employment in 1967, but there were plenty of opportunities for high jinks, brushes with the law, romantic encounters and brushes with death. This honest and drily told memoir of coming of age in the small Midlands town of Kenilworth captivates and holds the reader to the very end. First job, first love, first motorbike. We're routing for Lenny all the way, hoping he'll stay alive, win the girl he loves and make things right with his father. Readers who know Kenilworth will enjoy travelling back to a time when there was a football pitch by the war memorial, a gasworks on Dalehouse Lane, when the old boys' club still stood out the back of the parochial church hall and the traditional-style department store, Burgis and Colbourne, was open for business in Leamington Spa. Whether you knew Kenilworth in the 1960s or you're experiencing it for the first time in this memoir, you're guaranteed to enjoy Lenny's tales of teenage life among the streets, lanes and open spaces of this Warwickshire town.