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Melanie McGrath - Silvertown - 9781841151434 - KOG0000945
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Silvertown

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Description for Silvertown Paperback. Melanie McGrath's critically acclaimed East End family memoir now in paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJ; BGHA; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184. Clean copy with minor shelf wear

Melanie McGrath’s critically acclaimed East End family memoir now in paperback.

In this remarkable book, award-winning writer Melanie McGrath has given us a vivid and poignant memoir of the East End. McGrath spent years wondering about her East End roots. At the turn of the twenty-first century the places where her grandparents lived out their lives Poplar, East Ham and Silvertown – are virtually unrecognisable; her grandparents, Jenny and Len Page, long since dead and already half forgotten.

Silvertown teems ... Read more

The places Melanie McGrath describes have largely vanished now. This evocative and deeply moving family memoir recreates the lost East End and the struggles of those who live there.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841151434
SKU
KOG0000945
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Melanie McGrath
Melanie McGrath is the author of three previous books, ‘Motel Nirvana’, ‘Hard, Soft & Wet’ and ‘Silvertown’. She is a regular contributor for the Guardian, Independent and the Express. She lives in Vauxhall, London.

Reviews for Silvertown
'McGrath tells her story in a novelist's idiom, and the result is extraordinarily powerful and curiously resonant. Like much of the East End, Silvertown today is in the process of an astonishing transformation. The curse on the area has been lifted. But McGrath has beautifully recorded the old Silvertown just before it disappears for ever.' Sinclair McKay, Daily Telegraph ... Read more

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