A Child in the Forest Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

A Child in the Forest Book

Few people visited the Forest of Dean. They thought us primitive, and looked down on us. Winifred Foley grew up in the 1920s, a bright, determined minerâ??s daughter in a world of unspoiled beauty and desperate hardship, in which women were widowed at 30 and children died of starvation. Living hand-to-mouth in a tumbledown cottage in the Forest of Dean, Foleyâ??"our Poll"â??had a loving family and the woods and streams of a forest "better than heaven" as a playground. But a brother and sister were dead in infancy, bread had to be begged from kindly neighbors, and she never had a new pair of shoes or a shop-bought doll. And most terrible of all, like her sister before her, at 14 little Poll had to leave her beloved forest for the city, bound for a life in service among Londonâ??s grey terraces.Read More

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  • 0946252491
  • 9780946252497
  • Winifred Foley
  • 22 March 2001
  • Douglas McLean
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
  • New edition
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