East End Girl : Growing up the Hard Way

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780340837320
• ISBN10: 0340837322
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2006-12-01
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Summary

The story of bestselling author Sally Worboyes' own family life in postwar Stepney is no less engrossing and dramatic than her gritty East London sagas. Sally grew up in a two-up, two-down with an outside lavatory and no hot water, where her parents raised four of their six children. From carol singing for the Kray twins to a family secret, Sally's childhood was full of the spirit of adventure.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
A Waste of Five Shillings	p. 1
Goodbye, My Pets	p. 19
Margaret the Catholic	p. 28
A German Called Rose Lipka	p. 49
Rags to Second-hand Clothes	p. 73
Running Away From Home	p. 91
Eight Stitches to My Leg	p. 122
Drowning in the River	p. 163
Food, Glorious Food	p. 189
A Sad Farewell	p. 205
Farewell, Margaret	p. 212
No More a Child	p. 246
Dreams of an Hour-Glass Figure	p. 263
Sun, Sea and Sangria	p. 275
My Close Arrest	p. 280
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