Chapter 1: The Dee-Dar and the Chemistry Lab
Sheffield steel, Barnsley coal, and a very unstable compound.
A working-class Yorkshire boyhood on Sheffield and Barnsley council estates, ending with a school chemistry-lab explosion and the headmaster’s office.
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