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Jam Butties and a Pan of Scouse
Maggie Clarke
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Description for Jam Butties and a Pan of Scouse
Paperback. A heart-warming and nostalgic memoir of hardship and happiness in Liverpool's dockland slums. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; 3JJ; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 244.
JAM BUTTIES AND A PAN OF SCOUSE is a gritty yet heart-warming memoir set against the backdrop of Liverpool's tightknit working-class docklands community. The story covers Maggie Clarke's upbringing in the tenements close to the docks, the River Mersey and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal: an area notorious for having the worst slums in Britain, yet the closest community as well. At the tender age of 11, Maggie Clarke finds herself the matriarch of the family when her Irish mother runs off with another man. Leaving school at 14 to work at a local factory putting sticks ... Read more
JAM BUTTIES AND A PAN OF SCOUSE is a gritty yet heart-warming memoir set against the backdrop of Liverpool's tightknit working-class docklands community. The story covers Maggie Clarke's upbringing in the tenements close to the docks, the River Mersey and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal: an area notorious for having the worst slums in Britain, yet the closest community as well. At the tender age of 11, Maggie Clarke finds herself the matriarch of the family when her Irish mother runs off with another man. Leaving school at 14 to work at a local factory putting sticks ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781409166764
SKU
V9781409166764
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99-99
About Maggie Clarke
Cathryn Kemp is the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of WE AIN'T GOT NO DRINK, PA and A FISH SUPPER AND A CHIPPY SMILE. She has written across the spectrum of the British press, and in 2002 won the Peter Wilson Award for Journalism before running her own, highly successful press agency. She is also the author of PAINKILLER ADDICT for ... Read more
Reviews for Jam Butties and a Pan of Scouse
This is the fascinating memoir of 95-year-old Maggie Clarke... and it's an at time heart-wrenching tale of family trauma, hardship and happiness grabbed in stolen moments. It's also an insightful chronicle of an ever-changing city.
CHOICE MAGAZINE
This gritty memoir... is both an inspiration and an eye-opener.
Pam Norfolk
LANCASHIRE EVENING POST
CHOICE MAGAZINE
This gritty memoir... is both an inspiration and an eye-opener.
Pam Norfolk
LANCASHIRE EVENING POST