Down Milldyke Way: A touching saga of heartbreak, grit and emotion
By (Author) Harry Bowling
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Book Publishing
9th August 2011
11th November 2010
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Saga fiction (family / generational sagas)
823.914
Paperback
416
Width 130mm, Height 197mm, Spine 27mm
283g
When Kate Flanagan sits in the Old Bailey court room and hears the seven-year sentence for armed robbery being passed on her husband, she knows that now is the time to get free of him and make a new life for herself and her two children. Kate has to move to a slum tenement block in Milldyke Street, Dockhead. Here she meets the attractive Amy Almond whose friendship opens doors of opportunity for new relationships. When Kate stumbles over the murdered body of a single woman who lived in the next block, however, she realises that she, herself, could be a target.
Kate turns to the attractive and sympathetic Sergeant Cassidy for protection and finds that her emotions, as well as her life, are in danger...Harry was born in 1931 in a back street off the Tower Bridge Road. He left school at the age of 14. Only when his own children began to ask questions about the war, did Harry realise how many stories he had to tell. In his fifties, he was given early retirement from his job as a brewery driver-drayman, and was at last able to devote his time to writing. He became known as 'the King of Cockney sagas', who wrote eighteen bestselling novels of London life. Sadly Harry died in 1999 and the Harry Bowling Prize was set up in 2000 in his memory.