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Book Title: I'm Not Complaining
ISBN: 0860682552
ISBN 13: 9780860682554
The author of the book: Ruth Adam
Edition: Virago
Date of issue: 1983
Language: English
Format files: PDF
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"Squalor did not frighten me...But somewhere beneath it all was a live, burning thread that ran through these human miseries that was not just mismanagement, nor stupidity nor a faulty social system, but something living, primitive, terrible - something I dare not look in the face"

Madge Brigson is a teacher in a Nottinghamshire Elementary school in the 1930s. Here, with her colleagues - ranging from the beautiful, "promiscuous" Jenny to the earnest communist Freda and kind, spinsterish Miss Jones - she battles with the trials and tribulations of that special world: nits in the hair, abusive parents, inspectors' visits, eternal registers, malnutrition, staff quarrels and staff love affairs. To all of this Madge presents an uncompromisingly intelligent and commonsensical face: laughter is never far away as she copes with her pupils, with the harsh circumstances of life in the Depression, and with her own love affair. For Madge is a splendid heroine: determined, perceptive, warm-hearted, she deals with life, and love, unflinchingly and gets the most out of the best - and worst - of it.

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RUTH ADAM (née King), 1907-1977, was the daughter of a vicar in a Nottinghamshire mining village. After school in Yorkshire, she taught for five years, before marrying the journalist Kenneth Adam and moving with him first to Manchester and then to London. She travelled a great deal, pursuing her wide-ranging interests in education and social policy. Four children were born between 1937 and 1947, by which time the Adams had moved to a large house outside London to live communally with other families. During the war Ruth Adam worked, like many other writers of her generation, in the Ministry of Information; meanwhile her husband joined the BBC, where he later became Director of Television. Ruth Adam wrote twelve novels between 1937 and 1961, all of them concerned with social issues; she also co-authored, with Kitty Muggeridge, a biography of Beatrice Webb. A Woman's Place, a history of women's lives in the twentieth century, appeared in 1975.