The Cook's Tale

by Tom Quinn and Nancy Jackman

Book Overview

Nancy Jackman was born in 1907 in a remote Norfolk village. Her father was a ploughman, her mother a former servant who struggled to make ends meet in a cottage so small that access to the single upstairs room was via a ladder.

The pace of life in that long-vanished world was dictated by the slow, heavy tread of the farm horse and though Nancy's earliest memories were of a green, sunny countryside still unspoiled by the motorcar, she also...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1444735896
• ISBN13: 9781444735895
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Coronet Books (GB)
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.7"