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Wartime for the Sugar Girls

✍ Scribed by Duncan Barrett;Nuala Calvi

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
1 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
000838519X

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✦ Synopsis

Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's London factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to number ten in the Sunday Times Bestseller List in the UK on publication, spending five weeks in the top ten. 'On an autumn day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne walked the short distance from her house to Tate & Lyle's refinery on the shining curve of the Thames. Looking up at the giant gates, Ethel felt like she had been preparing for this moment all her life. She smoothed down her frizzy hair, scraped a bit of dirt off the corner of her shoe and strode through. She was quite unprepared for the sight that met her eyes ...' In the years leading up to and after the Second World War thousands of women left school at fourteen to work in the bustling factories of London's East End. Despite long hours, hard and often hazardous work, factory life afforded exciting opportunities for independence, friendship and romance. Of all the factories that lined the docks, it was at Tate & Lyle's where...

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