Download or read book The Cook's Tale written by Nancy Jackman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Jackman was born in 1907 in a remote Norfolk village. Her father was a ploughman, her mother a former servant. Nancy left school at the age of 12 to work for a farmer and continued to work as a cook until the 1950s, sustained by her determination to escape and find a life of her own.