Oh Happy Day

by Carmen Callil

Book Overview

Carmen Callil explores her roots in a book that is a miracle of research and whose writing is fuelled by righteous anger - a story of Empire, migration and the poverty and injustice of nineteenth-century England

In this remarkable book, Carmen Callil discovers the story of her British ancestors, beginning with her great-great-grandmother Sary Lacey, born illegitimate in 1808, an impoverished stocking frame worker in Leicestershire. Through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0224090305
• ISBN13: 9780224090308
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 4.7" x 6.1"