Shoes Were For Sunday
$35.99
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
27 June 2019
Summary
Making do with nothing in Glasgow’s streets
‘Poverty is a very exacting teacher and I had been taught well’
The post-war urban jungle of the Glasgow tenements was the setting for Molly Weir’s childhood. From sharing a pull-out bed in her mother’s tiny kitchen to running in terror from the fever van, it was an upbringing that was cemented in hardship. Hunger, cold and sickness was an everyday reality and complaining was not an option.
Despite the crippling poverty, ther…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241957929 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241957923 |
| Author: | Molly Weir |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 27 June 2019 |
| Weight: | 166g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Molly Weir
Molly Weir was born in 1910 and grew up in Glasgow. Best known for her role as the character Hazel McWitch in the BBC TV series Rentaghost, she appeared prolifically on TV, radio and in film. Shoes Were For Sunday received great acclaim when first published in 1970, and became a bestseller. She died in 2004, leaving the proceeds of her estate, including the royalties from sales of this book, to the poor and elderly of her beloved Springburn in Glasgow.
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