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Full Hearts And Empty Bellies

By: Winifred Foley
Narrated by: Annie Aldington
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Winifred Foley grew up in the 1920s, a bright, determined miner's daughter - in a world of unspoilt beauty and desperate hardship, in which women were widowed at 30 and children died of starvation. Living hand to mouth in a tumbledown cottage in the Forest of Dean, Foley - 'our Poll' - had a loving family and the woods and streams of a forest 'better than heaven' as a playground.

But a brother and sister were dead in infancy, bread had to be begged from kindly neighbours and she never had a new pair of shoes or a shop-bought doll. And most terrible of all, like her sister before her, at 14 little Poll had to leave her beloved forest for the city, bound for a life in service among London's grey terraces.
©1974 Winifred Foley (P)1974 Hachette Audio UK
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An absolute joy from start to finish

I don’t always take the time to write reviews but this audio book is an absolute gem worthy of all the praise I can muster. It has me laughing and crying and lost in Lil Pol’s world from start to finish I just can’t bare for it to end but shall certainly purchase another of Winifred Foley’s books to fill the void that listening to this delightful story will lead. Amazing performance by the narrator too, absolutely BRILLIANT. Everyone should listen to this. It warms the heart.

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Heart warming

I read these books many years ago, WF stories remind me of my Mother’s tales of village life and service

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