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Our street

Gilda O'Neill

2003300 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2003
first published
  • 2003Viking · 300 pages · ENGISBN 9780670896905
  • 2010Penguin Group UK · ENGISBN 9780141946610
  • 2004Penguin Books Ltd · 320 pagesISBN 9780141000466

Our Street is the perfect companion to Gilda O'Neill's bestselling My East End. This book focuses on the lives of Londoners in the East End during the Second World War. Showing the concerns, hopes and fears of these so-called 'ordinary people' Our Street illustrates these times by looking at the every day rituals which marked the patterns of daily life during WWII. It is an important book and also an affectionate record of an often fondly remembered, more communal, way of life that has all but disappeared.

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