A Child in the Forest by Winifred Foley, 1974, First Edition, published by BBC, London. Hardback, 254 pages
This hardback memoir is in good condition:
- the original dust-jacket has wear, rubbing, discolouration, marks and small tears and creases along the edges. It also has a scuff on the front picture (see pics)
Otherwise inside there is no writing, tearing, creasing or dog-earing.
23.5cm x 16cm x 3.5cm approx.
Part of the blurb reads:
'...although Winifred Foley's father was a miner, the village was surrounded by the oaks of the Forest of Dean. The contrast between the beauty of the setting and the poverty of the village, between the humanity and love which went into her upbringing and the harshness of conditions that made hunger a common experience marks the book.
It is Winifred Foley's own zest for life that runs through her story, as she tells without a trace of self-pity of one child raised in a loving home who had to leave that warm security for a job where she was the all-purpose labour-saving device - a living-in maid. For giirls like her, there was no alternative.
The story is remarkable for its honesty, and for the author's gift of re-creating times and people long dead with an incisive precision: it also proves how extraordinarily interesting an ordinary life can be.
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