Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss, and Kitchen Objects It was a means of

It was a means of controlling troublesome women and a philosophy that helped remove poor people from valuable land

skilled raconteur TERRY DEARY takes us back through the centuries with a poignant but humorous look at how life treated the ordinary people who scratched out a living at the very bottom of society

Thanks to their dad

Joy's world is ripped apart

emerging on the other side to a reality both perfectly familiar and utterly strange

Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss, and Kitchen Objects It was a means ofOne August day, months after her marriage abruptly ended, a heart shaped baking tin fell at Bee Wilson's feet: the same one she had used to bake her wedding cake twenty three years prior. This discovery struck a wave of emotions that propelled her in search of others who have invested kitchen objects with magical and personal properties. A favorite wooden spoon or a saltshaker inherited from a parent: these and other items become powerful symbols of