Four Meals For Fourpence
A Heartwarming Tale of Family Life in London's old East End
$43.05
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
28 June 2011
Summary
‘I was born in a tenement flat in the East End of London in the year in which Queen Victoria died.’
FOUR MEALS FOR FOURPENCE is Grace Foakes’s memories of her girlhood in Wapping in the early 1900s. With a child’s uncluttered eye, she describes the small details - shopping in the market, men waiting for work at the dock gates, the rituals of washday, the sights, sounds and smells of the old East End of London. She also describes the fear - of illness, of unemployment, of the workhouse…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844087273 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844087271 |
| Author: | Grace Foakes |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 28 June 2011 |
| Weight: | 232g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
“Mrs Foakes manages to convey a remarkable joy in just being alive.”
”“Extraordinary warmth and hope comes through her narrative.” “Evening Standard”
”“Mrs Foakes manages to convey a remarkable joy in just being alive.” “Observer”
About The Author
Grace Foakes
Grace Foakes was born in Wapping in 1901.
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