The View From the Corner Shop
The Diary of a Yorkshire Shop Assistant in Wartime
$35.09
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2016
Summary
A lively diary chronicling the ups and downs of running a grocery shop in a Yorkshire town during the rationing years of the Second World War.
Kathleen Hey spent the war years helping her sister and brother-in-law run a grocery shop in the Yorkshire town of Dewsbury. From July 1941 to July 1946 she kept a diary for the Mass-Observation project, recording the thoughts and concerns of the people who used the shop.
What makes Kathleen’s account such a vivid and compelling read is…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781471154010 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1471154017 |
| Author: | Kathleen Hey, Patricia Malcolmson, Robert Malcolmson |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2016 |
| Weight: | 326g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 197mm x 131mm |
About The Author
Kathleen Hey
Kathleen Hey was born on 17 March 1906, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the youngest of four children. Her diary exists in the Mass Observation Archive but does not chronicle the date of her death. To the best of the editors’ knowledge, she died without leaving descendants.
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