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Far from the East End: The moving story of an evacuee's survival and search for home


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Far from the East End: The moving story of an evacuee's survival and search for home

Contributors:
ISBN:

9780718198947

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Publication Date:

26th September 2012

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Second World War
Modern warfare
Family saga / generational saga fiction

Dewey:

920

Physical Properties

Number of Pages:

336

Dimensions:

Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 20mm

Weight:

242g

Description

The touching Blitz evacuee's memoir about the search to belong From the dirty streets of the East End to the Welsh countryside, will little evacuee Iris ever find somewhere to belong Born in 1938 under threat of looming war, Iris spent her early years playing in the rubble of bombed buildings in Dagenham by day and cowering in a dusty shelter at night. But the hardships of poverty and the dreaded Blitz could not match the pain she felt at her parents' indifference. She prayed that just once her mother would hold her when the bombs rained down. But loneliness only intensified when she was evacuated. Finding the nurturing home she had always dreamt of in her adopted Welsh parents, she wonders what, when she returns to London after the war, will be waiting for her. Will she ever be able to love her philandering father, depressive mother and an angry, bullying brother Will her family even survive Or will she have to look farther afield for the affection she so longs for

Author Bio

Iris Jones Simantel grew up in Dagenham and South Oxhey, before moving to the US with her GI husband Bob at the tender age of 18. She now resides in Devon where she enjoys writing as a pastime. Her first memoir about her childhood, Far from the East End, beat several thousand other entries to win the Saga Life Stories Competition.

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