Pie and Mash down the Roman Road: 100 years of love and life in one East End market - Hardcover

McGrath, Melanie

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9781473641969: Pie and Mash down the Roman Road: 100 years of love and life in one East End market

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ISBN 10: 1473641969 ISBN 13: 9781473641969

Publisher: Two Roads, 2018

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2018 AND THE ANDR� SIMON FOOD BOOK AWARDS 2019

'Filled with hearty goodness and packed together with care, this will go down a treat' Evening Standard
'Rich and compelling' Spectator
'Pacy and breath-taking . . . I loved every word' Carol Rivers
'Beautifully written, carefully researched, wonderfully told' Danny Wallace
'Draws you right into the heart of the vibrant East End community' Rosie Hendry

The fascinating history of an iconic East End institution from the bestselling author of Silvertown, Melanie McGrath.

G Kelly's Pie and Mash has been run by the same family in the Roman Road in Bow for nearly a hundred years; an East End institution and the still point of a turning world. Outside its windows the Roman Road has seen an extraordinary revolution - from women's liberation and industrialisation to wars and immigration - and yet at its heart it remains one of the last traditional market roads of London.

Pie and Mash down the Roman Road is the biography of that shop and of the people - customers, suppliers, employees, owners - who passed through it, and continue to do so. Through vivid tales of ordinary lives the book tells the extraordinary story of the community living around the oldest trading route in Britain, and the true heart of the East End. Brilliant, funny, fascinating. Beautifully written, carefully researched, wonderfully told. Danny Wallace Beautifully written and impeccably researched, Pie and Mash down the Roman Road draws you right into the heart of the vibrant East End community. Rosie Hendry, author of the East End Angels series Pacy and breath-taking; Melanie tells it like it is and was. The Roman Road market life is a force to be reckoned with, and I loved every word. Carol Rivers, Sunday Times bestselling author of A Wartime Christmas Fascinating insight, a love letter to London. It's very well written, thoroughly researched and a perfect insight into a slice of history, as tasty as the best pie and mash. Glenda Young, author of Belle of the Back Streets Anybody nostalgic about their London roots will love this impressively researched, absorbing gem of a book. Kay Brellend, author of the Campbell Road series

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Review:

Filled with hearty goodness and packed together with care, this book will go down a treat. (Evening Standard)

Her empathetic ability to inhabit vanished streets and catch authentic voices - at a point when you wonder how much longer they will be around - is rich and compelling (Spectator)

An emotional encounter with Bow's very tumultuous history (Roman Road LDN)

A still point in a turning world . . . a shop front onto the past (Mail on Sunday)

Book Description:

This is the story of the Roman Road, an East End pie and mash shop and the lives and loves of the people who have worked and eaten there.

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