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This candid and vividly written autobiography of an Essex working class girl in the immediate prost-War periiod, together with its description of her family background, presents a valuable social history of the milieu and privagte life in which she was nurtured.
The depression and poverty of the 1930s was carried through to the 1950s - and of course was exacerbated by the struggle and misfortunes of the Second World War. The author's descriptions of pimps with all their devious ingenuity, and the filth and grime of an East End brothel and its inmates is horrific and unforgettable, and places the book as a unique document of social history.
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