The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
By: Kathleen Dayus
3.95
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Born into the industrial slums of Birmingham in 1903, Kathleen Dayus became a legend in her own tim…
Want to ReadIf you liked the memoir plot in The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham by Kathleen Dayus , here is a list of 6 books like this:
1. Hide and Seek (Helen Grace, #6)
By: M.J. Arlidge
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Prison is no place for a detective Helen Grace was one of the country's best police investigators.… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in M.J. Arlidge's Hide and Seek (Helen Grace, #6) book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
2. Sully: My Search for What Really Matters
By: Jeffrey Zaslow , Chesley B. Sullenberger III
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks--the inspirational autobiography… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jeffrey Zaslow's Sully: My Search for What Really Matters book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
- autobiography
- history
- nonfiction
- memoir
3. Behind Closed Doors: A True Story of Abuse, Neglect and Survival Against the Odds
By: Jenny Tomlin
2.50
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
In 'Behind Closed Doors' Jenny Tomlin recounts her traumatic upbringing at the hands of a physicall… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jenny Tomlin's Behind Closed Doors: A True Story of Abuse, Neglect and Survival Against the Odds book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
4. Twenties Girl
By: Sophie Kinsella
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Sophie Kinsella's Twenties Girl book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
5. Behind the Scenes at the Museum
By: Kate Atkinson
3.00
Format: None pages,
Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes us on a whi… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Kate Atkinson's Behind the Scenes at the Museum book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
6. The Orchid House
By: Lucinda Riley
4.01
Format: None pages, Paperback
For fans of The House at Rivertonand Rebecca--a debut spanning from the 1930s to the present day, f… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Lucinda Riley's The Orchid House book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
7. The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (Harold Fry, #2)
By: Rachel Joyce
3.62
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and a… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Rachel Joyce's The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (Harold Fry, #2) book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
8. The Midnight House
By: Amanda Geard
4.17
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A Richard & Judy Bookclub pick of war, love and sacrifice. People disappear. Secrets remain... … read more
Want to Read $ 2.99Similar categories in Amanda Geard's The Midnight House book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
9. Bournville
By: Jonathan Coe
3.81
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more
Want to Read $ 11.49Similar categories in Jonathan Coe's Bournville book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
10. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in David Mitchell's Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
- history
- nonfiction
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
11. Magpie
By: Elizabeth Day
3.63
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
She has almost everything. The rest she’ll take. Single White Female meets The Perfect Nanny in … read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Elizabeth Day's Magpie book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
"She watches him walk around the room, naked apart from those silly flip-flops he's put on because his feet feel the cold. She marvels at his lack of self-consciousness. He has a good body: tall and b…"-Elizabeth Day, Magpie
12. The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets
By: Dawn French
3.87
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last s… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Dawn French's The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- memoir
13. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
By: Adam Kay
4.12
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Twas The Nightshift Before Christm… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Adam Kay's Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Who's that you can see in his suit of magenta? It's me - I've been soaked head to toe in placenta."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
"Full marks to the anaesthetist wearing a badge that says; 'He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake'."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
"ENT is commonly known as Early Nights and Tennis - a good choice of specialty if you like a quiet Christmas. See also, dermaholiday."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
"I ask why. then remember why most people do most things, and thus find myself introduced - at the tender age of twenty-four - to the sexual kink of mummification."-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
14. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
Want to Read $ 16.50Similar categories in Chris van Tulleken's Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
- nonfiction
15. Songbirds
By: Christy Lefteri
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, a stunning novel about the disappearance … read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Christy Lefteri's Songbirds book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
"Now that I could hear this woman’s song—a melody that told a story I couldn’t understand—I hoped with all of my heart that it wasn’t too late."-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds
"As if she couldn’t quite allow herself to enjoy the pleasures of one world without being pulled into the other. Her home was always waiting for her."-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds
"You see, when you clump people together and don’t understand their personal stories, you can make up any bullshit and convince yourself it’s the truth."-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds
"Yes, I love thinking about beginnings. I don’t like endings, though I suppose I’m like most people in that. An ending can be staring you right in the face without you knowing it."-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds
16. Mrs England
By: Stacey Halls
3.91
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Stacey Halls's Mrs England book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
17. The Girls Who Disappeared
By: Claire Douglas
3.90
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
A journalist's life is threatened when she investigates the truth about a mysterious car crash that… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Claire Douglas's The Girls Who Disappeared book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
18. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
Want to Read $ 18.99Similar categories in Raynor Winn's Landlines book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- memoir
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
19. Friend Request
By: Laura Marshall
3.76
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Maria Weston wants to be friends. But Maria Weston is dead. Isn't she?1989. When Louise first notic… read more
Want to Read $ 4.99Similar categories in Laura Marshall's Friend Request book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
20. The Foundling
By: Stacey Halls
3.99
Format: 400 pages, ebook
London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hosp… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Foundling book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
"Waarom moesten we de kaarten die ons waren toebedeeld, klakkeloos accepteren?"-Stacey Halls, The Foundling
"Mijn wereld was gekrompen tot de grootte van een walnoot. En toen was Daniel naar een van tante Cassandra's feestjes gekomen en had hij de noot gekraakt."-Stacey Halls, The Foundling
21. The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris
By: Daisy Wood
4.34
Format: 367 pages, Paperback
From an exciting new voice in WWII historical fiction—and the author of The Clockmaker’s Wife—comes… read more
Want to Read $ 4.99Similar categories in Daisy Wood's The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
22. A Three Dog Problem (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates, #2)
By: S.J. Bennett
3.88
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Queen Elizabeth II is having a royal nightmare. A referendum divides the nation, a tumultuous elect… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in S.J. Bennett's A Three Dog Problem (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates, #2) book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
23. Still Me (Me Before You, #3)
By: Jojo Moyes
4.11
Format: 469 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition for ISBN 978-0399562464 can be found here. From the #1 New York Times… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Jojo Moyes's Still Me (Me Before You, #3) book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
"I’m going to say a Will Traynor thing now."-Jojo Moyes, Still Me (Me Before You, #3)
"Conócete primero y , luego , adornate en consecuencia"-Jojo Moyes, Still Me (Me Before You, #3)
"Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times."-Jojo Moyes, Still Me (Me Before You, #3)
"I told myself there was no point in dwelling on something that was gone."-Jojo Moyes, Still Me (Me Before You, #3)
24. Cat And Mouse (Helen Grace, #11)
By: M.J. Arlidge
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
When you think you're safe, When you think you're all alone, That's when he'll come for you... … read more
Want to Read $ 6.99Similar categories in M.J. Arlidge's Cat And Mouse (Helen Grace, #11) book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
25. Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live
By: Lily Ebert
4.60
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A heart-wrenching and ultimately life-affirming Holocaust survivor story that demonstrates the powe… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Lily Ebert's Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
- autobiography
- history
- nonfiction
- memoir
26. The Windsor Knot (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #1)
By: S.J. Bennett
3.52
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
The morning after a dinner party at Windsor Castle, eighty-nine-year-old Queen Elizabeth is shocked… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in S.J. Bennett's The Windsor Knot (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates #1) book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
27. Time to Say Goodbye
By: Rosie Goodwin
4.61
Format: 475 pages, Kindle Edition
The final book in Rosie Goodwin's bestselling 'Days of the Week' collection'A vibrant page-turner w… read more
Want to Read $ 5.99Similar categories in Rosie Goodwin's Time to Say Goodbye book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
28. We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1)
By: Richard Osman
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve... Steve Whe… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Richard Osman's We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1) book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
29. Hot Pies on the Tram Car
By: Sheila Newberry
3.88
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
London, 1925 On Paradise Corner, just past the tram stop, Florence runs a pie shop, famous for m… read more
Want to Read $ 5.99Similar categories in Sheila Newberry's Hot Pies on the Tram Car book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
30. The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
By: Kathleen Dayus
3.95
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Born into the industrial slums of Birmingham in 1903, Kathleen Dayus became a legend in her own tim… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
- autobiography
- history
- nonfiction
- memoir
31. The Book of Beginnings
By: Sally Page
4.23
Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes the next uplifting story … read more
Want to Read $ 6.99Similar categories in Sally Page's The Book of Beginnings book and Kathleen Dayus's The Girl from Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham
