Kathleen Dayus fue una autora inglesa cuya obra profundiza en los recuerdos de la infancia en la Inglaterra de clase trabajadora. A través de sus novelas autobiográficas, pinta vívidos retratos de la vida en la clase trabajadora, capturando las especificidades y la atmósfera de su ciudad natal. Su estilo es incisivo y auténtico, ofreciendo a los lectores una visión íntima del pasado. Dayus es valorada por su capacidad para transportar a los lectores a una era pasada, brindando una experiencia auténtica de otro mundo.
This volume collects Dayus' four books of autobiography. In it she recalls her Edwardian childhood, growing up in the slums of Birmingham, her adolescence as a munitions worker during World War I, early widowhood and the Depression, which forced her to give up her children.
Kathleen Dayus revisits her childhood and young adult life before marriage, bringing to life the people and places her readers have come to know from her earlier volumes of autobiography. Here are stories of her schooldays; her first working experiences; her sister Lisa's theft of money her mother was sending to the Front; and experiences with boyfriends and dirty old men. All are told in the fresh and unsentimental prose for which Dayus is renowned.