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

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Born in 1938 under threat of looming war, the author 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. This book tells her story.

Product details

• Authors: Iris Simantel, Iris Jones Simantel, Iris Simantel, Iris Jones Simantel
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 19.07.2012
• EAN: 9780718198947
• ISBN: 978-0-7181-9894-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Sagas, Second World War, Generational sagas, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949