The cook's tale
By: by Nancy Jackman with Tom Quinn
Contributors: Quinn, Tom, 1956- author
Edition: [Large print edition].
Publisher: Magna Large Print Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Long Preston, North Yorkshire, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780750537674
Subjects: Women cooks; Biography; Cooks; Women household employees; Household employees; Country life; History; Large type books; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: 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 small cottage. 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 green, sunny countryside still unspoiled by the motorcar, she also knew at first hand the harshness of a world where the elderly were forced to break stones on the roads and where school children were regularly beaten.
Notes: Standard print edition originally published: London : Coronet, 2012.