A child in the forest

Winifred Foley's best-selling account of a childhood in the Forest of Dean in the first half of this century. She describes how life in a small mining community was one of economic hardship, faced with humor and overcome with fortitude. She describes the many lively characters that peopled her small world, and the events that made up her daily life for the community, as well as her first ventures into the world of work at the age of 14 when she left school.