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Full Hearts And Empty Bellies
- Author
- Winifred Foley
- Narrator
- Annie Aldington
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 25 October 2018
- Run Time
- 7 hours 43 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Biography: general
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- Author
- Winifred Foley
- Narrator
- Annie Aldington
- Duration
- 7 hours 43 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 October 2018
- ISBN
- 9781405542296
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Biography: general
Synopsis
Winifred Foley grew up in the 1920s, a bright, determined miner's daughter - in a world of unspoilt beauty and desperate hardship, in which women were widowed at thirty and children died of starvation. Living hand-to-mouth in a tumbledown cottage in the Forest of Dean, Foley - 'our Poll' - had a loving family and the woods and streams of a forest 'better than heaven' as a playground. But a brother and sister were dead in infancy, bread had to be begged from kindly neighbours and she never had a new pair of shoes or a shop-bought doll. And most terrible of all, like her sister before her, at fourteen little Poll had to leave her beloved forest for the city, bound for a life in service among London's grey terraces.
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