Spanning six decades from the 1930's onwards, this is the story of an indomitable woman, born into abject poverty in the grim ghetto of East London, whose driving ambition was to escape from her humble beginnings; from a feckless Irish mother and a father with an ungovernable temper. Her early education was disrupted by constantly warning parents. Evacuated twice at the age of 10, she returned as an adolescent to the war-ravaged landscape of East London. She traunted constantly from the harsh elementary school, until the local education authority offered the scholarship exam to twelve year...
Spanning six decades from the 1930's onwards, this is the story of an indomitable woman, born into abject poverty in the grim ghetto of East London, w...
