Frank McCourt.

Im not sure I grasp the difference. However Eastwood is a couple of miles from where I live, and it is of course the birthplace of DH Lawrence.

When I first came here thirty odd years ago, there wwas a thriving mining community - and a number of people remmebered DH Lawrence and his family. Amongst the miners there was a lot of bad feeling against him. they thought he had said unfair things about their community, and that he had slandered the memory of his father - who was remembered as a decent guy - quite unlike the monster of Sons and Lovers.

Nowadays - no one remembers the family first hand, and very slowly Eastwood is beginning to realise that there are Lawrence festivals - everywhere from Tokyo to Texas. They have preserved his birthplace, but so far no festival you would notice.