{"product_id":"9781841151434_silvertown-an-east-end-family-memoir","title":"Silvertown: An East-End Family Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eMelanie McGrath’s critically acclaimed East End family memoir now in paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this remarkable book, award-winning writer Melanie McGrath has given us a vivid and poignant memoir of the East End. McGrath spent years wondering about her East End roots. At the turn of the twenty-first century the places where her grandparents lived out their lives Poplar, East Ham and Silvertown – are virtually unrecognisable; her grandparents, Jenny and Len Page, long since dead and already half forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSilvertown teems with stories of life in the docks and pubs and dog tracks of the old East End where Melanie McGrath's grandparents scraped a living. Here are the bustling alleys and lanes of Poplar in 1914, where eleven year old Jenny watches the men go off to fight; the Moses sweatshop on the Mile End Waste; the London docks, then the largest port in the world; and Jenny having her teeth pulled out on her seventeenth birthday. Here too is the Cosy Café, opened full of hope by Jenny and Len – later a home to their troubled marriage – and an East End landscape which is altered forever by the closure of the docks and the disintegration of this close knit community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe places Melanie McGrath describes have largely vanished now. This evocative and deeply moving family memoir recreates the lost East End and the struggles of those who live there.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melanie McGrath","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46896518135957,"sku":"9781841151434","price":22.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781841151434_2438650d-0e5b-412a-9fe9-6f2da481ea6a.jpg?v=1776888250","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781841151434_silvertown-an-east-end-family-memoir","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}