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Too many mothers : a memoir of an East End childhood

By Taylor , Roberta

Book information

Publisher
Atlantic Books Ltd;Isis
Year
2011
ISBN
9781445016863, 1445016869
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
905 kB (926804 bytes)
Series
Isis MP3
Edition
MP3 book
Pages
\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00
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Description

Overview: It's Boxing Day, 1956 in East London, and it's freezing, inside and out. Roberta, aged eight, sits in the kitchen in her overcoat, determined to make herself invisible, watching the shenanigans of the grown-ups. Her granny, Mary, reigns over the house with an iron will and an eye to the main chance. Roberta's cousin is on her hands and knees at the parlour grate, trying to retrieve grandad's dentures from the coals, dragging her coat in the dust. It's too cold to hang it up by the front door. Besides, Granny Mary makes no exceptions when it comes to the occasional light thieving. Aunt Doll learns that the hard way. Not even a padlock kept Mary from stealing Doll's wedding presents, although nobody can understand how she got the back off the wardrobe without Doll noticing.

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