Far from the East End: The moving story of an evacuee's survival and search for home

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Iris Jones Simantel

Far from the East End

The moving story of an evacuee's survival and search for home

Iris Jones Simantel

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Penguin Books Ltd
26 September 2012

Memoirs; Military history

The touching Blitz evacuee's memoir about the search to belong

From the dirty streets of the East End to the Welsh countryside, will little evacuee Iris ever find somewhere to belong?

Born in 1938 under threat of looming war, Iris spent her early years playing in the rubble of bombed buildings in Dagenham by day and cowering in a dusty shelter at night. But the hardships of poverty and the dreaded Blitz could not match the pain she felt at her parents' indifference. She prayed that just once her mother would hold her when the bombs rained down. But loneliness only intensified when she was evacuated.

Finding the nurturing home she had always dreamt of in her adopted Welsh parents, she wonders what, when she returns to London after the war, will be waiting for her. Will she ever be able to love her philandering father, depressive mother and an angry, bullying brother?

Will her family even survive? Or will she have to look farther afield for the affection she so longs for?

By: Iris Jones Simantel
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 242g
ISBN: 9780718198947
ISBN 10: 0718198948
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 26 September 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Iris Jones Simantel grew up in Dagenham and South Oxhey, before moving to the US with her GI husband Bob at the tender age of 18. She now resides in Devon where she enjoys writing as a pastime. Her first memoir about her childhood, Far from the East End, beat several thousand other entries to win the Saga Life Stories Competition.