by William Woodruff · Little, Brown Book Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780349116228
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«Beyond Nab End» is the second volume of memoirs by William Woodruff, published by Little, Brown Book Group in paperback (320 pages, in English).
In this second volume of his memoirs, William Woodruff arrives in London's East End in the 1930s and finds work in a steel foundry. After working at the Water Board, he decides to get an education and wins a place at Ruskin College, Oxford. The book ends with Woodruff's return after the war and his meeting with his son.
Originally published in 2003, it continues the memoirs William Woodruff began in The Road to Nab End.
For adult readers interested in biographies, social history and interwar London.
William Woodruff was a professor of world history and author. His two autobiographical works, The Road to Nab End and its sequel Beyond Nab End, both became bestsellers in the United Kingdom. The memoirs, covering Woodruff's impoverished upbringing in an English weaving community during the Great Depression, contain significant amounts of social commentary about the conditions in which he lived.
