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Room for a Lodger: A captivating romantic saga set in 1970s East End

Sally Worboyes

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'She brings the East End to life' Barbara Windsor

It is 1970 when 20-year-old Cathy falls in love with Johnny Dean, and becomes pregnant. A young docker, Johnny offers to marry Cathy - but what she doesn't know is that his gambling has got out of hand. He owes favours to the wrong sort and to clear his debt gets involved in a serious theft at the docks...

Though Cathy is supported financially by Johnny's family, looking after a baby as a single mother isn't easy, and she's beginning to get lonely. When she meets a handsome young antiques dealer, friendship might not be enough for either of them. But will she be able to stop Johnny finding out?

A captivating romantic saga from Sally Worboyes, author of Banished from Bow and Jamaica Street.

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Praise for Room for a Lodger: A captivating romantic saga set in 1970s East End

  • Unbridled passions run riot - Daily Mail on Wild HopsSizzles with passion - GuardianA rich, vivid, three-dimensional and gutsy narrative - Eastern Daily PressAn excellent book combining humour and passion - Telegraph and Argus

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Sally Worboyes

Sally Worboyes

Sally Worboyes was born and grew up in Stepney with four brothers and a sister, and she brings some of the raw history of her own family background to her East End sagas. She now lives in Norfolk with her husband, with whom she has three grown-up children. She has written several plays which have been broadcast on Anglia Television and Radio Four. She also adapted her own play and novel, WILD HOPS, as a musical, The Hop Pickers.

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