Publisher's Synopsis
In PRIDE OF THE MORNING Phyl Surman records her memories of life in Cowley, Oxford, in the years following the Great War. The clothes she wore, the furnishings of her parents' house and the food they ate are all graphically remembered. She describes the fun they had with a newly-made rag rug, trying to identify the pieces of old clothing it was made from, and bath nights in front of the fire when her mother covered the hearth with newspapers to prevent splashes staining the black leading. She tells of schooldays, shopping, street games, the 'cat's whisker' crystal set and the arrival of Welsh miners who walked to Cowley from Wales to find work at the new Morris Motor Works. More than a personal memoir, though, PRIDE OF THE MORNING also describes with love the Oxford of the 1920s.
