Only Way Was Essex
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A01=Spike Mays
Author_Spike Mays
Brown Book Group
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DNBA
Category=NHD
Category=NL-BG
Category=NL-HB
COP=United Kingdom
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essex
Format=BC
HMM=133
IMPN=Abacus
ISBN13=9780349138794
Language_English
Memoir
PA=Available
PD=20130214
POP=London
Price=€5 to €10
PS=Active
PUB=Little
SMM=22
Subject=Biography: General
Subject=History
WG=256
WMM=200
Product details
- ISBN 9780349138794
- Weight: 256g
- Dimensions: 200 x 133 x 22mm
- Publication Date: 14 Feb 2013
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: London, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In a remote corner of rural Essex, when ploughs were drawn by heavy horses and children walked shoeless to school, young Spike Mays lived with his family in a two-up, two-down cottage, where there was no electricity, no bathroom, no running water and just a shared privy in the back yard. Beset by poverty, this was an England in the shadow of the Great War.
In this bittersweet memoir Mays recreates the village, its travelling parson, local poacher and even the local drunkard. And in the bustling backstairs world of the squire's house where Spike served his apprenticeship we see a more privileged side to life. This warm and nostalgic portrait of a very different Essex opens a door to a distant past.
Spike Mays wrote several other memoirs detailing his life in Essex.
