Showing My Part of the River by Grace Foakes

I was born in a tenement flat in the East End of London in the year in which Queen Victoria died... I shall try to tell you what life was like to live so close to the Thames and its docks. Some of what I shall write about will be almost unbelievable to those who have lived only in this affluent age.'

'Extraordinary warmth and hope comes through her narrative.' THE EVENING STANDARD

Fulfils every one of my requirements for a perfect present I can't think of anyone who would not enjoy it and be moved by it'
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