elsnooko's review
4.0
Poignant personal history of a working class woman who witnessed the transformation of the East End docks throughout the 20th century
schopflin's review
4.0
Powerful and poetic, as well as historically interesting. It's an alternative picture of the Second World War in particular and I'm interested in the fact that the long-accepted idea that rationing improved the health of the urban poor has no part here. There's a whole other story which the author hasn't chosen to tell, about the next generation, but perhaps that's in another book.
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