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Title: The Tailor of Salisbury
Subtitle: A True Story
Author: Lindsay Fairgrieve
Narrator: Martin Jarvis
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-21-13
Publisher: The Lindsay Players
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, World Affairs
Publisher's Summary:
Re-released. Geoffrey James Hurford, a tailor who worked in Salisbury, England, was born in 1921 in Damerham, Hampshire, at a time when Crown Prince Hirohito, aged 20, had just been named Regent of Japan, when the cinema was erupting with excitement at the arrival on screen of Italy's most glamorous star, Rudolph Valentino, and when, in the United Kingdom, a 45-mile-to-the-gallon, brand-new Rover two-seater car could be bought for 230 guineas.
As a child, Geoffrey contracted osteomyelitis, a chronic bone infection, and subsequently spent several years in hospital undergoing traumatic operations. By the time he was 21, he voluntarily made the decision to have his leg amputated.
This fascinating account of Geoffrey's life - childhood, tailoring college, marriage and an extensive working career - is given a sensitive and humorous "talking head" performance by Martin Jarvis. It is an aspirational and entertaining true story of a tailor who, until his death in his early 80s, carried on working from the Dickensian tiny front room of his house in Salisbury's city centre.
Critic Reviews:
"a gem" (The Sunday Times)
"incredible" (The Times)
" staggering" (The Guardian)
Members Reviews:
Wonderful story of a simple man.
Simply told story of a man who had to face many challenges in the years before WWII and after due in large part to physical disabilities. Despire having most major decisions made for him in early life, even to his career, he looks back in old age with great contentment and circumspection, and humour,at a lifetime of medical, physical, and emotional challenges. He also gives a true picture of England in those years.