Winifred Foley

• Apr-2009
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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 ...

• Aug-2008
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Forced to find another job to help support her family, Laura leaves the Forest of Dean to take up the position as maid to a Jewish family in London. She quickly settles in to life with the Cohens, befriending the daughter Rachel and catching the eye ...

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 village chapel has no graveyard; villagers must go to rest in the churchyard two miles away. Many of the graves have headstones and those that haven't are neatly trimmed and in season have their jam-jars of flowers, but in a corner there's one gr...

Buried deep in the forest is Badger's Green, the immaculate but sterile home of Byram Warren, his cowed wife Agnes and their daughter, Helen. Stifled all her life by her cold, disciplinarian father and his religious fanaticism, the naive Helen is ill...

The Forest of Dean in the early 20th century is a place of great beauty, but also of great harshness and poverty. Kezzie and Tess know both aspects, particularly Kezzie whose father is arrested for sheep-stealing, her family being thrown out to face ...