'Few people visited the Forest of Dean. They thought us primitive, and looked down on us.
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.
Product code: 9780349122182
| ISBN |
9780349122182 |
| Dimensions (HxWxD in mm) |
H196xW132xS17 |
| No. Of Pages |
256 |
| Publisher |
Little, Brown Book Group |
| On Sale Date |
01/06/2009 |