Full Hearts and Empty Bellies: A 1920s Childhood from the

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

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.
Country USA
Brand Abacus
Manufacturer Little, Brown Book Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780349122182
ReleaseDate 2009-04-02
UnitCount 1
UPCs 000349122180
EANs 9780349122182

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