The Widow Ginger
Autor Granger Pipen Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2003
"Packed with sharp authentic detail, this tale told through a child's eyes brings to life a colourful world of great characters from a bygone age." -- HOME & COUNTRY
"Loved this book. Could not put it down, read it in two sittings..." -- ***** Reader review
"I enjoyed every minute of it and was sad when I finished it..." -- ***** Reader review
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ALL WAS CALM AND NORMAL...UNTIL A STRANGER CAME INTO TOWN...
1954, Soho, London. Rosie, and her beloved Auntie Maggie are opening up their café in Old Compton Street for Uncle Bert's breakfast special when the Widow Ginger comes to call.
The Widow Ginger, an ex-GI with ice-cold blue eyes, is especially scary. He has unfinished business with Uncle Bert- business that includes being cheated on his share of a 'liberated' lorry-load of guns and explosives during the War - and he intends to make sure he now gets paid in full.
And this isn't all: the lovely Luigi appears to be suffering from a severe case of unrequited lust; Bert and the local Mafioso Maltese Joe have had an acrimonious falling-out; and, most worrying of all, Rosie's best friend Jenny has begun to keel over mysteriously in the school playground....
The Widow Ginger continues Rosie's story (started in Not All Tarts Are Apples) and paints a picture of 1950s Soho so authentic you feel as though you are there...
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780552148962
ISBN-10: 0552148962
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 107 x 178 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0552148962
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 107 x 178 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Pip Granger
Recenzii
"'Packed with sharp authentic detail, this tale told through a child's eyes brings to life a colourful world of great characters from a bygone age.'" Home & Country "'A carnival atmosphere that's tinged with a little sadness.'" Woman's Own "'Celebrates the colourful characters and atmosphere of 1950s Soho, where this queen of London saga-writers grew up.'" What's On In London "'A colourful, deeply nostalgic evocation of Soho in the Fifties, drawing heavily on the author's own childhood.'" Choice