Name: The Way to Hornsey Rise By Jeremy Worman
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The Way to Hornsey Rise: Autobiographical Novel by Jeremy Worman

This autobiographical novel explores how Jeremy, a privately educated schoolboy, comes to reject his comfortable rural Surrey background to end up in the squats, drugs and hippy scene of 1970s Hornsey Rise. The central theme of the book is Jeremy's need to escape from the intense relationship with his alcoholic, charismatic and mentally unstable mother, her lovers, his ageing, ailing father, and about his romantic relationships. Foremost among his mother's lovers is former Indian Army officer, Neville Prideaux, who lives in an apartment in their house. 'Uncle Neville' moves out and commits suicide, but his continued presence haunts the novel. Among the Jeremy's amorous relationships, his bittersweet romance with vulnerable Clare stands out, and has quite an impact on his life. Besides being an engaging personal story, starting out in 1962, Jeremy coming-of-age makes you really care for him, what makes this novel of particular interest is the way it explores how a 1968-style vision of the world collapsed in the 1970s, and its implications for Jeremy and many of his generation. This visionary countercultural world is not going to happen. The final chapters are set in Hornsey Rise, the largest squat in Europe. The embers of the counterculture, and its lived reality, are evoked in terms of its victims, drugs use and disillusioning effect on Jeremy. A journey about discovering what really matters in life. How a growing sense of self-belief can keep someone going in challenging circumstances. The Way to Hornsey Rise is a moving and very personal story, laced with intriguing observations about society, which all adds to its universal appeal.

About Jeremy Worman

Jeremy is a writer and critic who taught English Literature to American BA students for twenty-five years at Birkbeck, University of London. He has also taught at Cambridge University and at Hackney Adult Education Institute. He has lived as a hippie in Wales and a squatter in London, where he was part of a group that set up one of the first short-term housing co-ops in Hackney. He eventually received an excellent education at Birkbeck, where he was awarded a First in English; he has an MA (Distinction) in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London, an M. Litt from Cambridge University and a PhD in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths (2021) where Blake Morrison was the supervisor for his memoir; the examiners were Francis Spufford and Sir Jonathan Bate. He has reviewed for The Observer, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Statesman and many other publications. Jeremy's autobiographical novel, The Way to Hornsey Rise, explores how a privately educated schoolboy turns from his rural Surrey background to the squats, drugs and hippie scene of 1970s north London; the story is also about the intense relationship with his alcoholic, charismatic mother. Beyond an engaging personal story, the narrative investigates how a 1968-style vision of the world collapsed, and the implications this has for the author and many of his generation. A few of these themes have been touched on in Jeremy's two collections of short stories but in the novel he steps out of the mask and tells it as it was. His short-story collections, Fragmented (2011) and Swimming with Diana Dors and Other Stories (2014), were published by Cinnamon Press. His short stories have been published widely in, amongst other places, The London Magazine, Ambit, The Frogmore Papers, the Cork Literary Review, in two London Magazine anthologies of short stories (Signals 2 and Signals 3). He won the 2009 Cinnamon Press short story prize and the Waterstones / MultiStory short story competition (2002), which was broadcast on BBC Radio Manchester. He was the judge of an anthology of prizewinning short stories, The Day I Met Vini Reilly (Cinnamon Press, 2016). He was shortlisted for the Jeremy Mogford GBP7,500 short story Prize (2016) His poems have been published in, amongst other places, The London Magazine, The Frogmore Papers and Iota. Jeremy is currently working on a novel set in Hackney, and on two essays about Iain Sinclair's narratives of Hackney. Jeremy has recently written a review for Green Letters, an ecocritical journal (2022). Jeremy's literary agent is Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson.

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Title

The Way to Hornsey Rise: Autobiographical Novel by Jeremy Worman

Author

Jeremy Worman

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Holland Park Press

Year published

2023-03-23

Number of pages

251

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The Way to Hornsey Rise Jeremy Worman

The Way to Hornsey Rise by Jeremy Worman

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