Description
An authentic and moving romantic saga set against the backdrop of the docks, streets, markets and pubs of Whitechapel, from the author of Wild Hops and The Dinner Lady.
Young Kay Armstrong wants to break away from her tough East End background, where her friends are turning to crime. A job in the City seems like the perfect answer - but when she plans a holiday to Spain that involves forging her passport, she takes a step too far...
Meanwhile her dad, Jack, is spearheading the great dock strike. He and his wife Laura worry about their headstrong daughter, especially the new set of friends introducing her to fashionable restaurants and the pleasures of drinking.
And when Zacchi, the handsome gypsy boyfriend of her past reappears, Kay has some hard choices to make...
About the Author
Sally Worboyes was born and grew up in Stepney with four brothers and a sister, and she brings some of the raw history of her own family background to her East End sagas. She now lives in Norfolk with her husband, with whom she has three grown-up children. She has written several plays which have been broadcast on Anglia Television and Radio Four. She also adapted her own play and novel, WILD HOPS, as a musical, The Hop Pickers.
Reviews
She brings the East End to life -- Barbara Windsor
A rich, vivid, three-dimensional, gutsy and sexy narrative which has you turning the pages into the early hours * Eastern Daily Press on WILD HOPS *
Unbridled passions run riot * Daily Mail *
Sizzles with passion * Guardian on WILD HOPS *
Book Information
ISBN 9781473659544
Author Sally Worboyes
Format Paperback
Page Count 464
Imprint Hodder Paperback
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Weight(grams) 318g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 148mm * 30mm