Full Hearts And Empty Bellies: A 1920s Childhood from the Forest of Dean to the Streets of London - Couverture souple

Foley, Winifred

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0349122180 ISBN 13 : 9780349122182

Editeur : Abacus, 2009

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Winifred Foley grew up in the 1920s, a bright, determined miner's daughter - in a world of unspoilt beauty and desperate hardship, in which women were widowed at thirty and children died of starvation. Living hand-to-mouth in a tumbledown cottage in the Forest of Dean, Foley - 'our Poll' - had a loving family and the woods and streams of a forest 'better than heaven' as a playground. But a brother and sister were dead in infancy, bread had to be begged from kindly neighbours and she never had a new pair of shoes or a shop-bought doll. And most terrible of all, like her sister before her, at fourteen little Poll had to leave her beloved forest for the city, bound for a life in service among London's grey terraces.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Born in 1914, Winifred Foley grew up in the Forest of Dean. She died in March 2009.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Abacus
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0349122180
• ISBN 13: 9780349122182
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256