The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End

Състояние: Отлично
Издателство: Collins
Град на издаване: London
Наличност: singular
Ширина (мм): 130
Височина (мм): 200
Дебелина (мм): 25
Корици: Меки

‘On a crisp September day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne stood outside Tate Lyle’s factory at Plaistow Wharf, on the shining curve of the Thames. Looking up at the giant gate, Ethel felt as if she’d been preparing for this moment all her life. She drew herself up to her full height and did her best to hide her nerves as she headed into the factory She was quite unprepared for the sight that met her eyes... ’

During the Blitz and the years of rationing, the Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly hard, but Tate & Lyle was more than just a workplace - it was a community, a calling, a place of love and support, and an uproarious, tribal part of the East End. From ambitious Ethel to irrepressible Gladys, lovelorn Lilian to fun-loving Joan - and Miss Smith, who tries to keep a workforce of flirtatious young men and women on the straight and narrow - this is an evocative, moving true story of hunger, hardship and happiness.

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‘Vivid and richly readable... If it doesn’t become a TV series to rival Call The Midwife, I’ll take my tea with ten sugars’

Bel Mooney, The Daily Mail (Book of the Week)