The Girl From Hockley
Growing up in working class Birmingham
$31.60
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
27 November 2006
Summary
The Girl from Hockley is a new, revised edition bringing together in one new volume this remarkable story.
Born into the industrial slums of Birmingham in 1903, Kathleen Dayus became a legend in her own time. She vividly recalls her Edwardian childhood and her life as a young munitions worker during the war, marriage and life below the poverty line in the 1920s. Early widowhood and the Depression forced her to relinquish her children to Dr Barnado’s homes until, eight long years later…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844083022 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844083020 |
| Author: | Kathleen Dayus |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 27 November 2006 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 139mm x 31mm |
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Critics Review
‘An evocation of a vanished world as vivid, moving and spiced with humour as any I have read’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ‘Written without nostalgia, sentimentality or self pity, but with humour, simplicity, colour’ MARY CHAMBERLAIN ‘It is a privilege to share her life’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
About The Author
Kathleen Dayus
Kathleen Dayus was born in Hockley, Birmingham in 1903. She lived in Birmingham and was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree by the University of Birmingham in December 1992 in recognition of her contribution to the writing of Birmingham’s history.
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