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All Growed Up

What Breadboy Did at University, What Paperboy Did Next, Book 2

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All Growed Up

By: Tony Macaulay
Narrated by: Tony Macaulay
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It’s Belfast, 1982, and an 18-year-old boy wearing Hai Karate aftershave has a date with destiny. He’s a real man now, so he is, and shaving twice a week. Following his successful career as a breadboy, he’s going where few people from the upper Shankill have boldly gone before: to university.

He trades the comforts of home for a life of Yellow Pack beans, student digs, and late-night intellectual debates on sex, socialism, and The Smiths, but this former paperboy doesn’t forget his roots, so he doesn’t, and he dreams of making a difference in the world by becoming a famous journalist like Woodward or Bernstein—or even Terry Wogan.

But to do that, he’ll have to keep his mind off girls (including Bo Derek), pass all his exams, and maybe even finish reading War and Peace....

All Growed Up is the sequel to Tony Macaulay’s memoirs Paperboy and Breadboy. Touching and funny, it’s the book in which the retired paperboy finally grows up.

©2014 Tony Macaulay (P)2023 Tony Macaulay
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Listening to Tony stories brought back so many fun memories of growing up in Belfast and spending time in Portrush, Portstewart and Coleraine. It was very nostalgic it was like stepping back in time.

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