{"product_id":"silvertown","title":"Silvertown","description":"\u003cp\u003eMelanie McGrath’s critically acclaimed East End family memoir now in paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eIn this remarkable book, award-winning writer Melanie McGrath has given us a vivid and poignant memoir of the East End. McGrath spent years wondering about her East End roots. At the turn of the twenty-first century the places where her grandparents lived out their lives Poplar, East Ham and Silvertown – are virtually unrecognisable; her grandparents, Jenny and Len Page, long since dead and already half forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eSilvertown teems with stories of life in the docks and pubs and dog tracks of the old East End where Melanie McGrath's grandparents scraped a living. Here are the bustling alleys and lanes of Poplar in 1914, where eleven year old Jenny watches the men go off to fight; the Moses sweatshop on the Mile End Waste; the London docks, then the largest port in the world; and Jenny having her teeth pulled out on her seventeenth birthday. Here too is the Cosy Café, opened full of hope by Jenny and Len – later a home to their troubled marriage – and an East End landscape which is altered forever by the closure of the docks and the disintegration of this close knit community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eThe places Melanie McGrath describes have largely vanished now. This evocative and deeply moving family memoir recreates the lost East End and the struggles of those who live there.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54227238814040,"sku":"9781841151434","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781841151434_5204d288-65be-4fa9-b070-93c967b7b97a.jpg?v=1764468942","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/silvertown","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}