# My East End

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- Book: [My East End](https://www.bookquiver.com/gilda-oneill/my-east-end) ([My East End.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gilda-oneill/my-east-end.md))
- Authors: [Gilda O'Neill](https://www.bookquiver.com/gilda-oneill)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4192-938-5
- Published: 2000-09-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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