The Story of bestselling author Sally Worboyes’ own family life in post-war Stepney is no less engrossing and dramatic than her gritty East London sagas. Sally grew up in a two-up, two-down with an outside lavatory and no hot water, where her parents raised four of their six children. From carol singing for the Kray twins to a family secret, Sally’s childhood was full of the spirit of adventure.
This is the vivid story of Sally’s days spent ‘raking’ the East End streets for useful scraps or crowding into her family’s tiny parlour rooms for Saturday tea. As well as the tribulations of a poor family, there is the deep love she felt and still feels for the old East End and its people.
This is probably Sally’s most gripping saga yet – and it’s all true.
My Rating 5/5 Loved This Book (Autobiography)
About The Author
Sally Worboyes was born and grew up in Stepney with four brothers and a sister. She is the author of many bestselling novels of East London life, including At the Mile End Gate, Over Bethnal Green and Whitechapel Mary. She has also written several plays broadcast on Anglia Television and Radio Four, and she has adapted her own play and novel, Wild Hops, as a musical, The Hop-Pickers. She now lives in Norfolk with her husband, with whom she has three grown-up children.
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