Autumn Alley

By Lena Kennedy

Book Overview

Gas lights and horse drawn buses, gin-soaked night clubs and fluttering lace curtains: enter the world of Autumn Alley. Here you'll find Maud, the formidable Irish-American suffragette; sulky Patricia, whose unhappy childhood leads her to a dangerous love affair; vivacious, flame-haired Colleen; Mary, who struggles to bring up children beside her wayward husband - and Arfer, whose quick mind lifts him out of the world of poverty in London's East End.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1444767216
• ISBN13: 9781444767216
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

A n excellent novel set at turn of the century London

This is the story of Tim an Irish labourer, his slow friend Dandy and their wifes and families living in a gaslit cobbled alley at the beggining of 1900. Read about Maud, Dandies loud American wife her beloved son, who goes off to fight in the first world war and tearaway daughter Colleen. Discover the dark secret the Brown twins accross the alley share, and their strange sister Ellen. This is an excellent book if you like to get the feel of old London and life before the Great War.

A taste of real life during WWII

This book is set in an alley in a poor sections of London and allows you to become part of the lives of it's inhabitants. All of the residents come from different races, colors and creeds and how they share their lives through joy, pain, politics, society and WWII.