Flying Off the Shed Roof Happiness and good cheer leap from the pages of this heart-warming memoir of a young girl living in an extended family in 1940s and 50s Birmingham. As Muriel Bridgewater herself says, My sisters and I grew up in very austere times, but that made high days and holidays doubly valuable ... by sharing celebrations with one another it was possible to overcome the hardships of war, rationing and povert... Full description