Book description
Melanie McGrath's critically acclaimed East End family memoir now in paperback.
In this remarkable book, award-winning writer Melanie McGrath has given us a vivid and poignant memoir of the East End. McGrath spent years wondering about her East End roots. At the turn of the twenty-first century the places…
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I purchased this fascinating book for research about Silvertown, a London area I had known nothing about previously. The author very cleverly tells the memoire as a story of her grandparent’s lives as if it were a novel. She must have spent many hours talking to her grandmother and others.
I loved learning about the fascinating people and their café. Poor Jenny, her grandmother, was so real. She had a hard life, and reading it, my heart went out to her.
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