My East End by Gilda O'Neill, read by the author
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Your support makes all the difference.It is almost worth starting with the second tape of this extraordinary autobiography, as the beginning of Gilda O'Neill's memoir of the East End of London is an outline of distant history much less interesting than the meat of her story. This describes the place in her own lifetime, remembered not just by her but in recorded memories from contemporaries. Her account of the area is rich both in telling details of the way Eastenders really lived and in enthralling true tales of hardship, friendship and dogged resilience, as well as in the inhabitants' streetwise wisdom and humour.
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