A Pocket Full of Monkey-Nuts

Set on the windswept banks of the River Severn, Joyce Taylor’s vivid memoir paints a rich portrait of post-war village life, social change, and personal awakening. As a girl growing up in the 1940s and ’50s, she faced everything from rural poverty to parental coldness - and yet found joy in the small moments that defined a generation.A Pocket Full of Monkey-Nuts is both a love letter to a lost England and a tribute to the strength of ordinary women. Fans of Call the Midwife and Toast by Nigel Slater will feel instantly at home in this world of ration books, harvests, and hard-won wisdom.A nostalgic, heartwarming true story of resilience and rebirth.