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My East End: Memories of Life in Cockney London

✍ Scribed by O'Neill, Gilda

Book ID
109199947
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
2 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780141929385

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✦ Synopsis

'Every page is a delight. Every chapter made vivid by a writer who has poured heart and soul into her book'. Val Hennessy, Daily MailThe East End of London - cockneys, criminals, street markets, pub singalongs, dog racing, jellied eels ... it is a place at once appealing and unruly, comforting and incomprehensible. Gilda O'Neill, an East Ender herself shows there is more to this fascinating area than a collection of cliched images. Using oral history and more traditional sources she builds up a powerful image of this community - bringing to us, with wit and honesty, the real story of London's East End

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