Full Hearts And Empty Bellies by Winifred Foley

Full Hearts And Empty Bellies by Winifred Foley

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Full Hearts And Empty Bellies by Winifred Foley

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.
Born in 1914, Winifred Foley grew up in the Forest of Dean. She died in March 2009.
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ISBN 13 9780349122182
ISBN 10 0349122180
Title Full Hearts And Empty Bellies
Author Winifred Foley
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Year published 2009-04-02
Number of pages 256
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.