The Cook's Tale

Jackman, Nancy

ISBN 10: 0750537671 / ISBN 13: 9780750537674

Published by Magna Large Print Books, 2013

About this Item

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cook's Tale
• Publisher: Magna Large Print Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750537671
• ISBN 13: 9780750537674
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 790 grams

About this title

Synopsis

Nancy Jackman was born in 1907 in a remote Norfolk village. Her father was a ploughman, her mother a former servant who struggled to make ends meet in a small cottage. The pace of life in that long-vanished world was dictated by the slow, heavy tread of the farm horse and though Nancy's earliest memories were of green, sunny countryside still unspoiled by the motorcar, she also knew at first hand the harshness of a world where the elderly were forced to break stones on the roads and where school children were regularly beaten.

About the Author

Tom Quinn is the editor of the Country Landowner's Magazine. He has written several small books for small independent publishers. He has spent the last twenty years interviewing people who worked in domestic service, getting them to tell him their life stories.