Product Description

Following her mother's untimely death, market trader's daughter Lizzie Allen is facing desperate times. Her father Tom, crippled in the fighting during WWI, has been left a broken and bitter man; her elder brother Vinnie is in serious trouble with the local hard man; her two younger sisters are in danger of being taken into care, and her sweetheart Danny is heading for Australia to seek his fortune. Determined to keep her family together, yet unable to escape the poverty and degradation of the slums, the heartbroken Lizzie is tricked into marriage by Danny's unscrupulous brother, Frank. Will she ever find the strength to protect her family from the underworld thugs who monopolise the Isle of Dogs? Can she escape her increasingly unhappy and violent marriage? And will she ever be reunited with her one true love, former barrow boy, Danny Flowers?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49713 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

Customer Reviews

East End Life
Carol Rivers is a great writer. Her books portray a very true account of how East End life would have been for the characters in her books, I know, as I was born and bred on the Isle of Dogs. I can guarantee if you read this book, you will want to read the rest, and I hope, many more to come. You don't have to be an 'Eastender' to enjoy these books.

Isle of Dogs Sagas
I loved all of Carol Rivers books.She really brings the Isle of Dogs to life and her stories are fascinating.In Lizzie of Langley Street I was gripped from the beginning to the end and loved the happy ending after all Lizzie's hardships.