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Index
Title Page
Contents
About the Author
Preface
Far from the East End
1. Born a Cockney Girl
2. Carey Road: My First Remembered Home
3. My War: the Early Days
4. My War Continues, and Other Battles
5. The Flying Scotsman, Jaundice and the Loch Ness Monster
6. Starting School
7. My Evacuation
8. Maerdy
9. Wales, a Different Life
10. Trauma in Maerdy
11. The Long Journey Home
12. VE Day and the Aftermath of War
13. An Assortment of Aunties
14. Lindsey Road and My Own Bedroom
15. Unexpected Company and Purple Grapes
16. Infidelity and the Missing Cufflinks
17. Almost Family Holidays
18. Mud, Glorious Mud: the Joneses Move West
19. Watford Fields School and How to Break Your Arm Down the Toilet
20. Methodists and Spiritualism
21. Victoria Girls’ School, Diseased Fish and Other Capers
22. Suspicious Deaths
23. Manners and Mah Jong
24. New School, New Desk and Tyrone Power
25. High School High Jinks
26. Another Brother and Watford Tech
27. Mum’s Friends, Boyfriends and a Lonely Stage Debut
28. Neighbour Ladies and Mysterious Bubbles
29. First Jobs, Knocking Up and Not Getting Knocked Up
30. Yanks’ Meat
31. Courtship
32. Marriage
33. Preparing to Leave England and Wales
34. Leaving Home for America
Illustrations
Author’s Note
Acknowledgements
Penguin Story
Copyright Page
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