Anything But Ordinary

In the summer of 1942, as flying bombs fell on Kent, David Dowell was born to replace a daughter his parents had lost — and then spent the next eighty years being anything but a replacement.

Anything But Ordinary is the warm, funny and unflinchingly honest memoir of a boy from a Kentish police house who was never going to sit still. Raised on bath nights and broken biscuits by an Irish mother who worked miracles and a Yorkshire father who simply provided, David grew up in an austerity Britai...