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A Fish Supper and a Chippy Smile: Love, Hardship and Laughter in a South East London Fish-and-Chip Shop
by Kemp, Hilda Kemp, Cathryn
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- F/F/ND
- ISBN 10
- 140915842X
- ISBN 13
- 9781409158424
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full Number Line.* Date of Publication: 2015* Publisher: Orion Publishing.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to covers. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly used. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: One block of 8pp. colour & b/w photos.* Pages: 261 pp. text. iii pp. blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- This memoir of married life in post-war Bermondsey will make the contemporary Londoner's eyes boggle. Before the sleek glass apartments arrived, there was a grinding poverty and semi-starvation, but a great sense of community and friendship. Hilda survives through the love of a good man and her job at the fish shop. The true story of a 1950s south east London community united by the local chippy and the woman at the heart of it all.* This is a FINE copy of the 1st./1st. FNL. with absolutely minimal shelf wear.*
Synopsis
When Richard Benson was growing up he felt like 'the village idiot with O'levels' – glowing school reports aren't much help when you're trying to help a sow give birth, or drive a power harrow in a straight line without getting half the hedgerow stuck in the tines. He left Yorkshire to work as a journalist in London, but returned when his dad called with the news that they were going to have to sell the family farm, and, in so doing, leave the home and livelihood that the Bensons had worked for generations. This is not only a moving personal account, but also one that reflects a profound change in rural life.
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1196
- Title
- A Fish Supper and a Chippy Smile: Love, Hardship and Laughter in a South East London Fish-and-Chip Shop
- Author
- Kemp, Hilda Kemp, Cathryn
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 140915842X
- ISBN 13
- 9781409158424
- Publisher
- Orion
- Place of Publication
- UK 288
- Date Published
- 2015-07-02
- Size
- 19.6 x 12.7 x 2.3 cm
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