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Bombsites And Lollipops: My 1950s East End Childhood (2011)

by Jacky Hyams(Favorite Author)

3.43 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1843583526 (ISBN13: 9781843583523)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

John Blake

review 1: Great nostalgic look back at post war east end of London. Characters that are no longer around and almost victorian. This was in an era of family values, ducking and diving, friendships and great changes from the aftermath of the blitz and slum housing conditions.Wriiten in a almost present tense which was unusual but did not detract from the story.Although nostalgic this is not a book looking through rose coloured spectacles this is warts and all.
review 2: Meh. The title was promising but I didn't feel the book delivered. Lots of clumsy sentences and awful punctuation but even with that, this was a better book than Call the Midwife. I wanted to read about childhood in the post-war East End but a lot of the book was about a family life that didn't seem spe... morecific to the time and place, and I didn't find all the teenage stuff in the '60s to be all that gripping. less

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