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Bread, Jam And A Borrowed Pram (2011)

by Dot May Dunn(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1409133362 (ISBN13: 9781409133360)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Orion Publishing

review 1: If nothing else can be said about the book, the speed with which I finished it should count for something. Started it late Saturday night after reading several other nonfiction books and I finished it by lunchtime Monday. (And that included two church services on Sunday and housework and lessons supervised on Monday.)The author recounts her work as a Health Visitor in post-war England with little bits of her personal life included. It is written as journal entries which cover two years in the late 50s and early 60s. The living situations of many of these families is undeniably atrocious, but her recounting is not sensational, instead it is straightforward, detailed and full of concern for those who need her assistance. The book did leave me wanting to scrub my house dow... moren to its very crevices as her entries recounting the filth and rankness she encountered made me feel nervous about some of my own housekeeping negligence. Looking forward to her other two titles.
review 2: Really interesting! Set in the 50's 60's in the midlands of england, a young health worker gets to grips with issues of the local area.Unbelievable living conditions, often no running water never mind hot water, toilets out the back.....shared with all the other residents. The author deals with babies living in squalor, neglected because the mother was shell shocked when a bomb dropped on her home during the war.....an old lady whose husband had died had no family and basically lived in her bed under piles of filthy blankets! believe it or not tho' there was a positive outcome by the end of the book and it was a good read! less

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