[1] Winifred Foley, the daughter of Charles Mason, a coal miner and his Welsh wife Margaret, was born in Brierley, Gloucestershire.
[2] The book has been compared with Laurie Lee's Cider with Rosie, but there are some differences, e.g. Foley makes clear the grinding poverty of her childhood.
"[4] A Child in the Forest was serialised on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour in 1973, and three years later one chapter from it, about a job as a domestic servant, was adapted as a TV programme, Abide With Me.
[10] Winifred Foley died in Cheltenham on 21 March 2009, some three days before her original book was re-released under the new title Full Hearts and Empty Bellies, having reportedly sold over 500,000 copies by that time.
One of the pieces of music chosen was a recording of "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" sung by the children of Pillowell County Primary School, which had been the signature tune of the 1973 BBC serialisation.