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- New book, ‘We Ain’t Got No Drink, Pa’, it all about the childhood of Hilda Kemp
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- Author and journalist Catherine Kemp decided to tell her grandmother’s story.
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- Hilda had a very turbulent youth but did not left those struggles defeat her
We Ain’t Got No Drink, Pa Hilda Kemp A Little Girl’s Struggle to Survive in the Slums of 1920s South East London. This book is true story written by Cathryn Kemp with the voice of her matriarchal Nan in her head.
‘We Ain’t Got No Drink, Pa’ by Hilda Kemp. Cathryn Kemp channels the voice of her grandmother Hilda who struggled to survive a harsh upbringing in 1920’s East London. Hilda’s Bermondsey was a place of drunkeness and casual violence. Cathryn tells Josephine why she chose to share her grandmother’s story in this way.
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