Shoes Were For Sunday

Informationen zum Autor Molly Weir was born in 1910 and grew up in Glasgow. Best known for her role as the character Hazel McWitch in the BBC TV series Rentaghost , she appeared prolifically on TV, radio and in film. Shoes Were For Sunday received great acclaim when first published in 1970, and became a bestseller. She died in 2004, leaving the proceeds of her estate, including the royalties from sales of this book, to the poor and elderly of her beloved Springburn in Glasgow. Klappentext A reissued story of a resilient upbringing in conditions of poverty in the Glasgow of the post-war years, originally published in the seventies and set to chime now with the nostalgia memoir market. Zusammenfassung The post-war urban jungle of the Glasgow tenements was the setting for Molly Weir's childhood. From sharing a pull-out bed in her mother's tiny kitchen to running in terror from the fever van, it was an upbringing that was cemented in hardship. Hunger, cold and sickness was an everyday reality and complaining was not an option.

Product details

• Authors: Molly Weir, Weir Molly
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.03.2012
• EAN: 9780241957929
• ISBN: 978-0-241-95792-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Sagas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Poverty & unemployment, c 1950 to c 1959, Generational sagas, Central Scotland, Urban communities, C 1945 To C 1960, Poverty and precarity