About my father's business
By: Lillian Beckwith
Series: Dales large print
Publisher: Dales
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9781842627556
Subjects: English Novelists; Large type books; Social conditions; English Women novelists; Childhood and youth; Biography
Description: Before the Second World War, Lillian Beckwith's father ran a small grocer's shop in a Cheshire town. It was typical of so many corner shops - the shops that are now more and more becoming just a memory, overwhelmed by the march of the supermarket. The corner shop where customers were known, often friends, not just faces at a checkout point, where shopping was gossipy, unhurried. A shop full of remembered smells of childhood: soft soap, aniseed balls, bacon and tea. A shop that is brought to life by the acute, affectionate memories of the little girl who grew up in it.
Notes: Originally published: London: Hutchinson, 1971.