# Full Hearts And Empty Bellies

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- Book: [Full Hearts And Empty Bellies](https://www.bookquiver.com/winifred-foley/full-hearts-and-empty-bellies) ([Full Hearts And Empty Bellies.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/winifred-foley/full-hearts-and-empty-bellies.md))
- Authors: [Winifred Foley](https://www.bookquiver.com/winifred-foley), [Annie Aldington](https://www.bookquiver.com/annie-aldington)
- Publisher: abacus
- ISBN: 978-03-4912-218-2
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2009-04-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 thirty 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 fourteen little Poll had to leave her beloved forest for the city, bound for a life in service among London's grey terraces.