Full Hearts and Empty Bellies

by Winifred Foley

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0349122180
• ISBN13: 9780349122182
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Abacus (UK)
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful reminiscence of a poor English child circa 1918

This will warm the hearts of all with ties to England