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Full Hearts and Empty Bellies: A 1920s Childhood from the Forest of Dean to the Streets of London
Winifred Foley
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Description for Full Hearts and Empty Bellies: A 1920s Childhood from the Forest of Dean to the Streets of London
Paperback. * An enchanting and utterly absorbing memoir of growing up in the Forest of Dean in the 1920s and 1930s Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 17. Weight in Grams: 188.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
187g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349122182
SKU
V9780349122182
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About Winifred Foley
Born in 1914, Winifred Foley grew up in the Forest of Dean. She died in March 2009.
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