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    The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End
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    The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End

    By Duncan Barrett and Calvi

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 29, 2012
    ISBN9780007448487
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    Duncan Barrett

    Duncan Barrett & Nuala Calvi are the bestselling authors of GI Brides and The Sugar Girls. Duncan studied English at Cambridge and now works as a writer and editor, specializing in biography and memoir. Nuala is a writer and journalist. She trained at London College of Printing and has written for The Times, The Independent, the BBC, CNN, and numerous Time Out books. They both live in London.

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    • 4/5
      Ever since reading the Midwive's series, I have taken a great liking to thse kind of books. A group of women, who at various times had worked for the sugar factory. Book explains how easy it was to get employment, a far cry from current times, a woman could start one job in the morning, decide she didn't like it and get a different job by the afternon. A good series, highlighting the many sociological and personal prejudices of the forties and fifties. One girl is forced to give up her child, because unmarried mothers were finished as were their families. Such an innocent time, while at the same time woman had little personal freedom. The prose is rather simplistic, but this is the author just setting down the words the women told him. Tate & Lyle were once two different companies, they merged and were the biggest employer in the East End.