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West End Girls

West End Girls

Author(s): Barbara Tate

Location(s): London

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): Late 1940s,

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Barbara Tate was 17 when she heard the whispered word that would change her life: Soho. It would take four years for Barbara to escape her loveless home but when she finally made it to the forbidden streets of Soho – just as London was recovering from the trauma of the second world war – things would never be the same again. There the naive Barbara meets the beautiful and capricious Mae. When she takes a job as Mae’s maid, Barbara imagines she’ll be housekeeping. But down a shabby backstreet, Barbara discovers the secret lives of Soho’s working girls. An astonishing world full of fierce friendships and bitter rivalries, dangerous men and desperate measures, Barbara soon learns that taking the money from a staggering supply of punters and making copious amounts of tea are only the bare essentials. She will need to be nursemaid, protector and confidante to impossible, adorable, self-destructive Mae.

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Jenny Colgan brings us yet another feel-good indulgence with this fabulously quirky read . . . full of laugh-out-loud observations . . . utterly unputdownable’ Woman

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Laugh and cry with this book, it is excellent. I am often in Soho and it must have been just as the author describes. – Debbie Grant –

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