Author: MACDONALD, MADELINE
Title: The Last Year of the Gang
Description: Lewes, East Sussex, The Book Guild. 2000, First Edition. (ISBN: 1857764374). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. When the author read through her adolescent diary, which had lain forgotten for many years, she was struck by the differences between the world she had written about and the world she now inhabited. Here was an authentic record of the life of a 13 year old, both at school and at home, half a century ago, and this memoir compares past and present in all its everday detail. She and her sister, Jan, lived with their mother near Hampton Court and the Palace loomed large in the family's activities, as did the atomic bomb and post-war austerity. Photographic illustrations. NOT EX LIB NOT LARGE PRINT D4D. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: Post War Austerity, Memoirs of Life in 1950's London, Hampton Court 1857764374


See more books from our catalog: Juvenilia / Childrens Fiction