S. T. Haymon: ‘Opposite The Crossed Keys: An East Anglian Childhood 1’
£11.00
Description
The first of S. T. Haymon’s glorious childhood memoirs about growing up in and around Norwich in the 1920s.
When well-to-do-little Sylvia finds herself at her housemaid’s family home in rural Norfolk she is at once shocked: The filth, the stench and the poverty are overwhelming. But she encounters a cast of such extraordinary characters and a life so alien to her own that she quickly falls in love, demanding to be allowed to stay permanently.
Sylvia Haymon’s enchanting memoir is a snapshot of its time and people. Here is a bucolic vision of a bygone England, with the truth of social division and the gruelling life of the poor writ large.
With a new introduction by Esther Freud, the joy, wit and keen observations of Haymon’s writing are celebrated here for a whole new audience.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.2 kg |
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