All That Jazz: Glamour and heartache in 1920s London
By (Author) Dee Williams
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Book Publishing
1st December 2008
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
480
Width 110mm, Height 176mm, Spine 32mm
300g
A heartrending tale of sisters torn apart, Dee Williams' latest novel also takes you into the colourful world of the Jazz Age...
It's 1921 and eighteen-year-old Daisy May and her little sister Mary-Jane, who is six, are orphaned. Times are tough and, to support her sister, Daisy has to work hard as a dancer in a nightclub, getting home late and hardly seeing Mary-Jane. One night a fire starts and Mary-Jane is alone in the house. The night's events lead to the sisters being split up and Daisy May begins to fear that she will never see Mary-Jane again...Dee Williams was born and brought up in Rotherhithe in East London where her father worked as a stevedore in Surrey Docks.She lives in Hampshire, where she isalso an active fundraiser for breast cancer awareness.