The war is over and the soldiers are coming back to the bomb-ravaged East End. Tom Smith is one of the thousands who are returning home. It's been an eventful war, what with a spell of desertion, and Tom can't wait to see his wife Jessie, their son Billy and the new baby daughter he hasn't even laid eyes on. But life back home wasn't easy either, especially when Jessie's army pension was stopped. So when she told to put Emma-Rose into a home for her own good, she thought it was best. But how will Tom take the news - and will they be able to get their daughter back?
Sally Worboyes was born and grew up in Stepney with four brothers and a sister. She now lives in Norfolk with her husband and three children. She has written plays broadcast on Radio Four, East End sagas published by Headline, and has adapted her own play and novel, WILD HOPS, as a musical, THE HOP-PICKERS.
Title: At the Mile End Gate
Author: Sally Worboyes
ISBN: 9780340728802
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Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publication Date: 2001-11-01
Number of Pages: 416
Weight: 0.2813 kg
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