Rabbit Stew and a Penny or Two

by Maggie Smith-Bendell

Book Overview

Born on a Somerset pea-field in 1941, the second of eight children in a Romani family, Maggie Smith-Bendell has lived through the years of greatest change in the travelling community's long history. As a child, Maggie rode and slept in a horse-drawn wagon, picked hops and flowers, and sat beside her father's campfire on ancient verges, poor but free to roam. As the twentieth century progressed, common land was fenced off and the traditional ways...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0349123616
• ISBN13: 9780349123615
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Abacus (UK)
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.9" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary