Sally Worboyes Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

London, 1960. Patsy Lamb is turning 17 at the start of a decade that will change everything. The slums of the East End are making way for the new modern lifestyle that is being promised to Patsy's generation. But as Patsy looks to the future, her world is rocked by a secret from her past.

Growing up in Bethnal Green, Charlotte longs for the day when she's old enough to put on her gladrags and be part of the swinging 60s. But her parents have other plans and move out to the quiet of the countryside, leaving Charlie pining for London as she grows into a beautiful young woman. So when a childhood friend walks back into Charlie's life just as she turns 18, it seems like the chance she's been waiting for to return to the bright lights. Surrounded by friends and family, it's everything she's ever dreamed of. But Charlie's dreams are shattered when brutal violence strikes close to home. For it turns out that London has a dark side too...

Anna has everything to make her happy - a husband, a lovely little house in Bethnal Green, two much-longed-for twin baby boys. But recently her husband Frank has been acting differently. He's started coming home late, drinking more heavily. More than once Anna has been sure she's caught a whiff of perfume on his shirts. When confronted, Frank brushes Anna's cautious questions aside, but somehow, Anna knows deep down that something is wrong in their marriage. Anna's sisters run an upmarket escort agency from a fine Victorian house nearby. It can be a risky business, but watching the carefree, laughter-filled banter of the women who work there, Anna begins to long for the girl she once was. Does being a wife and mother really mean that her dancing days are over? Maybe not. Old family friend Rob, a policeman who walks a fine line between right and wrong, is keen to show Anna a good time, even if her husband isn't...

It is 1970 and Kathy Dean, with her baby and a hard-working husband, is struggling to make ends meet. Johnny may have a good job at the docks but he is also an obsessive gambler. Desperate she gives him an ultimatum, but Johnny owes favours to the wrong sort.

September 1953, London's East End - Edie Birch, who believes herself to be a war widow, has finally allowed herself to fall in love again. Engaged to be married she is happily planning her wedding day. But fate has a blow in store - her fifteen-year-old daughter, Maggie, is pregnant. A plan has been hatched to stop her daughter from falling from grace. Hidden away above an Italian café in Islington until she is ready to give birth Maggie works long hours behind the scene while her mother Edie, in East London, feigns pregnancy. The charade works until the baby arrives and hard decisions are to be made. Can Maggie return home and cope with the pretence of her own child being her brother? And will her boyfriend's close Italian family agree to give up their grandson? Worse still, will the truth out once Edie's first husband turns up to demand his rights as grandfather?

In 1876 the homes of the poor working class in the East End are being replaced by splendid houses for the rich. When a woman is found killed in Toacco Dock and her lover is arrested, Maria attempts prove his innocence. But the murderer is closer to home than she thinks.

Patsy gives up her son to his natural father, and his wife, because she discovers that he doesn't really fit in with her lifestyle. But now Jac is six, and Patsy wants him back. She sets out to trick Jack and Laura into losing their son, determined to use all means to achieve her goal. From the author of WILD HOPS.

An absorbing, frigtening, brilliant novel from the author of Over Bethnal Green and At the Mile End Gate