Full Hearts and Empty Bellies: A 1920s Childhood from the Forest of Dean to the Streets of London

by Winifred Foley | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 9780349122182 Global Overview for this book
Registered by chamonix44 of Almelo, Overijssel Netherlands on 4/2/2010
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Journal Entry 1 by chamonix44 from Almelo, Overijssel Netherlands on Friday, April 2, 2010
I bought this book from a Cancer Research charity shop whilst on a short break in England. I intend to read it before I release it.

Amazon Editorial Review:

Few people visited the Forest of Dean. They thought us primitive, and looked down on us.
Winifred Foley grew up in the 1920s, a bright, determined miner’s daughter in a world of unspoiled beauty and desperate hardship, in which women were widowed at 30 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 neighbors, 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 14 little Poll had to leave her beloved forest for the city, bound for a life in service among London’s grey terraces.

Journal Entry 2 by chamonix44 at Almelo, Overijssel Netherlands on Wednesday, October 28, 2015
I loved this book. I wish the story had gone on longer.

Journal Entry 3 by chamonix44 at Almelo, Overijssel Netherlands on Sunday, July 24, 2016

Released 7 yrs ago (7/24/2016 UTC) at Almelo, Overijssel Netherlands

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I gave the book to my friend at church, Noelle. I do not think she will dare enough to write a journal entry here, but in the future she might return the book to me when she is finished with it, unless she can find a new reader for it herself.


Journal Entry 4 by chamonix44 at Almelo, Overijssel Netherlands on Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Noelle read the book and gave it back to me. So now it is available once again. I will hopefully be releasing it soon.

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