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SILVERTOWN: An East End family memoir

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ISBN
1841151432
ISBN10
1841151432
ISBN13
9781841151434
EAN
9781841151434
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GTIN
09781841151434

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Melanie McGrath's critically acclaimed East End family memoir now in paperback. In this remarkable book, award-winning writer Melanie McGrath has given us a vivid and poignant memoir of the East End. McGrath spent years wondering about her East End roots. At the turn of the twenty-first century the places where her grandparents lived out their lives Poplar, East Ham and Silvertown - are virtually unrecognisable; her grandparents, Jenny and Len Page, long since dead and already half forgotten. Silvertown teems with stories of life in the docks and pubs and dog tracks of the old East End where Melanie McGrath's grandparents scraped a living. Here are the bustling alleys and lanes of Poplar in 1914, where eleven year old Jenny watches the men go off to fight; the Moses sweatshop on the Mile End Waste; the London docks, then the largest port in the world; and Jenny having her teeth pulled out on her seventeenth birthday. Here too is the Cosy Cafe, opened full of hope by Jenny and Len - later a home to their troubled marriage - and an East End landscape which is altered forever by the closure of the docks and the disintegration of this close knit community. The places Melanie McGrath describes have largely vanished now. This evocative and deeply moving family memoir recreates the lost East End and the struggles of those who live there.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9781841151434
eBay Product ID (ePID)
89442282

Product Key Features

Book Title
Silvertown: an East End Family Memoir
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Topic
Memorials
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Author
Melanie Mcgrath
Format
Paperback

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Item Height
198 mm
Item Weight
180 g
Item Width
129 mm

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Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Title_Author
Melanie Mcgrath

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    • by cmd66
      07 Nov, 2019

      Excellent

      Loved this book. True storytelling about the EastEnd.

      Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: heybuyuk

    • by anhi848
      15 May, 2020

      Silvertown

      A beautifully written memoir of early 1900s. So good I read it in a day.

      Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: -vsuqagntpo@deleted

    • by stroodled
      12 Feb, 2020

      Beautifully written

      I'm really enjoying this - it's beautifully written and full of insight.

      Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: thecotswoldlibrary

    • by rosiebarnes_123
      04 Nov, 2020

      Silvertown

      Fantastic read

      Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: thecotswoldlibrary

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