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Money On't Table :Grit, Work and Family Pride (True Stories from the Boys and Girls of the Manufacturing Heartlands of Britain)
Money On't Table :Grit, Work and Family Pride (True Stories from the Boys and Girls of the Manufacturing Heartlands of Britain)
paperback
Published:
25 April, 2017
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Description
'Six moving, real-life stories in this gripping portrait of gas-lit, unheated, bombed-out Britain' Daily Mail
Derek, Betty, Albert, Pauline, Doreen and Bob came from families where every penny counted. Education meant sacrifice, and even children had to help their family through illness, poverty and disaster. Leaving school as young as thirteen, they went to work at the Great British companies Boots, Players and Raleigh. Their new lives took them from cigarette packing, sewing machine piecework and selling rubber 'prophylactics' to places their parents could not have dreamt of - selling lingerie, working on the Queen Mary and even becoming a director at Boots.
Following the loves and losses of six young men and women, Money on't Table is the true story of building new lives and a new Britain.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781910463543 |
| ISBN10 | 191046354X |
| Number Of Pages | 320 |
| Item Weight | 1000 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | Duckworth Books |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
'Reads like fiction but is actually social history - and comes with enough real-life joy and grief for dramatic invention to be unnecessary' Nottingham Post
'Six moving, real-life stories int his gripping portrait of gas-lit, unheated, bombed-out Britain' Daily Mail
Author's Bio
Corinne Sweet is a broadcaster, screenwriter, psychologist and psychotherapist and author of over fourteen books. These include popular psychology books, such as Change Your Life with CBT, The Mindfulness Journal and The Anxiety Journal, and the bestselling memoirs she has ghosted, Sixty Years a Nurse and Deliver Me from Evil. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages.