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

Foley, Winifred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349122180 ISBN 13: 9780349122182

Publisher: Abacus, 2009

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

'Enchanting . . . a gloriously vivid memoir' -- Daily Mail

Book Description:

* An enchanting and utterly absorbing memoir of growing up in the Forest of Dean in the 1920s and 1930s

About this edition

• Publisher: Abacus
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0349122180
• ISBN 13: 9780349122182
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256