Where Sparrows Nest by Sally Worboyes

Where Sparrows Nest by Sally Worboyes

In 1952 Eastenders are leaving their war-damaged homes and being settled into new places by the river - a new estate, with the luxury of electricity, hot water, gas cookers and proper bathrooms. Into the estate moves Edie Brown, a young war widow with a thirteen-year-old daughter, who works as a machinist in a clothing factory to eke out her small war pension. During one lunch break at the factory Edie discovers from a friend that her husband's cousin is coming from Turkey to stay with her until he finds a room to rent. He is coming from a small village in Kara - the very mention of which makes Edie's blood run cold. Kara was where her husband's boat crashed against the mountainous shoreline while searching for a missing British plane. All those aboard were listed as missing and presumed dead, drowned at sea. But the Turkish cousin will have a different story to tell...

Praise for Sally Worboyes:
A vivid evocation of a way of life * East Anglian Daily Times *
She brings the East End to life * Barbara Windsor *
Unbridled passions run riot * Daily Mail *
Sizzles with passion * Guardian *
A rich, vivid, three-dimensional and gutsy narrative which has you turning the pages into the early hours * Eastern Daily Press *

Sally Worboyes was born and grew up in Stepney. She has written plays broadcast on Radio Four, and adapted her own play and novel, WILD HOPS, as a musical, THE HOP-PICKERS.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780340734964
ISBN 10	0340734965
Title	Where Sparrows Nest
Author	Sally Worboyes
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Year published	2004-03-01
Number of pages	384
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.