My East End: Memories of Life in Cockney London
My East End: Memories of Life in Cockney London
Gilda O'Neill
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Paperback. Pub Date: 2000 09 Pages: 376 Publisher: Penguin 'Every Page is a delight every chapter made vivid by a writer who has Poured heart and soul into her book' - Val Hennessy. Daily Mail. The East End of London - cockneys. criminals. street markets. pub singalongs. dog racing. jellied eels ... it is a place at once appealing and unruly. comforting and incomprehensible. Gilda O'Neill. an East Ender herself shows there is more to this fascinating area than a collection of cliched images. Using oral history and more traditional sources she builds up a powerful image of this community - inging to us. with wit and honesty. the real story of London's East End.
Paperback. Pub Date: 2000 09 Pages: 376 Publisher: Penguin 'Every Page is a delight every chapter made vivid by a writer who has Poured heart and soul into her book' - Val Hennessy. Daily Mail. The East End of London - cockneys. criminals. street markets. pub singalongs. dog racing. jellied eels ... it is a place at once appealing and unruly. comforting and incomprehensible. Gilda O'Neill. an East Ender herself shows there is more to this fascinating area than a collection of cliched images. Using oral history and more traditional sources she builds up a powerful image of this community - inging to us. with wit and honesty. the real story of London's East End.
Gilda O'Neill
Gilda was born and brought up in the East End. She left school at fifteen but returned to education as a mature student. She is now a full-time writer and Make Us Traitors is her eleventh novel. She...
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