Description
| Product ID: | 9780349122182 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Full Hearts And Empty Bellies |
| Subtitle: | A 1920s Childhood from the Forest of Dean to the Streets of London |
| Authors: | Author: Winifred Foley |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: general, Autobiography: general |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating * An enchanting and utterly absorbing memoir of growing up in the Forest of Dean in the 1920s and 1930s 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Abacus |
| Publisher Name: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-04-02 |