Banished from Bow: A gripping romantic saga full of secrets and intrigue
By (Author) Sally Worboyes
Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder Paperback
20th October 2016
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Saga fiction (family / generational sagas)
823.92
Paperback
352
Width 128mm, Height 198mm, Spine 24mm
243g
A gripping romantic saga full of secrets and intrigue from the author of Time Will Tell and Jamaica Street.
After being abandoned as a child in 19th-century London's East End, a ragged and terrified Harriet was eventually found and taken into Mary Dean's house in Bow. There it was decided she would be brought up as a sister to Mary and her younger brother Arthur. But seventeen years later, Harriet and Arthur have fallen in love, and Harriet is pregnant. Driven out of Bow by neighbours who spit at them, the pair are forced to seek refuge in Stepney where, for a time, they are happy. But it is not long before Harriet is forced to protect a dark secret once more. She has kept something she stole as a child: the diary of a criminal who committed terrible acts. Now the owner of the diary has returned to the East End in search of it, and will stop at nothing to get it back . . .Unbridled passions run riot - Daily Mail
Here is a vivid evocation of a way of life - East Anglian Daily TimesSizzles with passion - GuardianShe brings the East End to lifeSally 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.