The Only Way Was Essex - Tough Times simple pleasures: growing up in an Essex village in

Informationen zum Autor Spike Mays wrote several other memoirs detailing his life in Essex. Klappentext In a remote corner of rural Essex, when ploughs were drawn by heavy horses and children walked shoeless to school, young Spike Mays lived with his family in a two-up, two-down cottage, where there was no electricity, no bathroom, no running water and just a shared privy in the back yard. Beset by poverty, this was an England in the shadow of the Great War. In this bittersweet memoir Mays recreates the village, its travelling parson, local poacher and even the local drunkard. And in the bustling backstairs world of the squire's house where Spike served his apprenticeship we see a more privileged side to life. This warm and nostalgic portrait of a very different Essex opens a door to a distant past. Previously published as Reuben's Corner A charming, nostalgic memoir about a bygone way of life, growing up in the Essex countryside during the early part of the last century. Zusammenfassung A charming, nostalgic memoir about a bygone way of life, growing up in the Essex countryside during the early part of the last century.

Product details

• Authors: Spike Mays, Mays Spike
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2013
• EAN: 9780349138794
• ISBN: 978-0-349-13879-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 200 mm x 133 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Essex, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, Memoir, essex,