Lillian Beckwith takes us back to her childhood; to the years before the Second World War, when her 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 redevelopment and the march of the supermarket. The corner shop where customers were known, often friends, people, 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.
- ISBN10 1842627554
- ISBN13 9781842627556
- Publish Date 1 March 2011 (first published 17 March 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 October 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Magna Large Print Books
- Imprint Dales Large Print
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language English