About the Book: Born in 1958 to a dinner lady and a sheet-metal worker, Geoff Dyer recounts a childhood shaped by postwar frugality, Airfix models, and rationed record-buying, before a grammar-school education opens the door to books, music, university, and a life his working-class parents could barely imagine. Far from a story of hardship, Homework celebrates the opportunities afforded to Dyer’s generation amid dramatic social change, blending memoir with reflection on class, opportunity, and how a single generation’s world could shift so completely.