Product Description

September 1953, London’s East End - Edie Birch, who believes herself to be a war widow, has finally allowed herself to fall in love again. Engaged to be married she is happily planning her wedding day. But fate has a blow in store – her fifteen-year-old daughter, Maggie, is pregnant. A plan has been hatched to stop her daughter from falling from grace. Hidden away above an Italian café in Islington until she is ready to give birth Maggie works long hours behind the scene while her mother Edie, in East London, feigns pregnancy. The charade works until the baby arrives and hard decisions are to be made. Can Maggie return home and cope with the pretence of her own child being her brother? And will her boyfriend’s close Italian family agree to give up their grandson? Worse still, will the truth out once Edie’s first husband turns up to demand his rights as grandfather?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #498217 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Eastern Daily Press
'A rich, vivid, three-dimensional and gutsy narrative'

Review
'A rich, vivid, three-dimensional and gutsy narrative' (Eastern Daily Press )

'Unbridled passions run riot' (Daily Mail )

'She brings the East End to life' (Barbara Windsor )

'Sizzles with passion' (Guardian )

'A vivid evocation of a way of life' (East Anglian Daily Times )

Barbara Windsor
'She brings the East End to life'