Bombsites and Lollipops: My 1950s East End Childhood - by Jacky Hyams

This book is a quite well written [the author is a journalist] memoir of growing up in the East End of London in the 1950s. She describes living at that time very well and I thought that she gave a very good feel for what life was like. The latter end of the story - she finishes as she enters adulthood - coincides with the first few years of my life. So, I have no memory of those times, but it does have some familiarity. Some things were a surprise, of course. Most notable was the author and her friends encountering strong antisemitism in Paris in the early 1960s. The book is a nice blend of her personal story and an illustration of the time.