My East End [Paperback]

Gilda O'Neill (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 28, 2000

'Every page is a delight. Every chapter made vivid by a writer who has poured heart and soul into her book'. - Val Hennessy, "Daily Mail". The East End of London - cockneys, criminals, street markets, pub singalongs, dog racing, jellied eels...it is a place at once appealing and unruly, comforting and incomprehensible. Gilda O'Neill, an East Ender herself shows there is more to this fascinating area than a collection of cliched images. Using oral history and more traditional sources she builds up a powerful image of this community - bringing to us, with wit and honesty, the real story of London's East End.

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"'Every page is a delight. Every chapter made vivid by a writer who has poured heart and soul into her book' - Daily Mail; 'A rich tapestry... a finely detailed examination of our not so distant past. Her book is as much a piece of history as the accounts it contains' - Time Out" --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

About the Author

Gilda O'Neill grew up in the East End of London. Having left school aged fifteen, she later returned to education as a mature student and went on to take three university degrees. Since 1990 she has been writing full-time and has published numerous works of both fiction and non-fiction, including two non-fiction bestsellers, My East End and Our Street. Gilda O'Neill is married with two grown-up children and lives in the East End.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Books (September 28, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140259503
• ISBN-13: 978-0140259506
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,663,814 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars My East End, August 2, 2010

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This review is from: My East End (Paperback)

Love this book, as being an Anglophile, i read a lot about London and the English life and places.

Have passed it on to my Aunt, know she will love it as her Mum was from Dogdyke Lincs