Money On't Table: Grit, Work and Family Pride (True Stories from the Boys and Girls of the Manufacturing Heartlands of Britain) - Couverture souple

Sweet, Corinne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 191046354X ISBN 13 : 9781910463543

Editeur : September Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

'Six moving, real-life stories in this gripping portrait of gas-lit, unheated, bombed-out Britain' Daily Mail

Their parents worked as miners and lace workers, but by the mid-twentieth century new opportunities beckoned for the children of the Midlands

Derek, Betty, Albert, Pauline, Doreen and Bob came from families where every penny counted. Education meant sacrifice, and even children had to help their family through illness, poverty and disaster. Leaving school as young as thirteen, they went to work at the Great British companies Boots, Players and Raleigh. Their new lives took them from cigarette packing, sewing machine piecework and selling rubber 'prophylactics' to places their parents could not have dreamt of - selling lingerie, working on the Queen Mary and even becoming a director at Boots

Following the loves and losses of six young men and women, Money on't Table is the true story of building new lives and a new Britain.

PRAISE FOR MONEY ON'T TABLE

'Reads like fiction but is actually social history - and comes with enough real-life joy and grief for dramatic invention to be unnecessary' Nottingham Post

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Corinne Sweet is a broadcaster, screenwriter, psychologist and psychotherapist and author of over fourteen books. These include popular psychology books, such as Change Your Life with CBT, The Mindfulness Journal and The Anxiety Journal, and the bestselling memoirs she has ghosted, Sixty Years a Nurse and Deliver Me from Evil. She is the Chair of the Book Committee of the Writers' Guild and her books have been translated into over twenty languages.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: September Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 191046354X
• ISBN 13: 9781910463543
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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