Description
Historical Fiction
Playing Around
London in the 1960s, and the city is swinging – what could be more exciting than being eighteen? But there is a dark side to Soho. . . Angie is eighteen years old, and, with the help of a mini skirt, a pair of false eyelashes and a tube of pale pink lipstick, has made herself into a beauty. She’s living in London in the Swinging Sixties, and knows she’s in the best city in the world at the best possible time. She’s got that world at her pretty, white-booted feet as she dances the night away with every handsome bloke on the booming, strobe-lit floor of the Canvas Club. She’s heard all the scare stories of course, about what drink, drugs and discotheques can do to young girls, but Angie knows she’s different. After all, she’s only playing around. But that was before that rainy night, when Angie got into the big, shiny car, leaving her friend Jackie in Soho to find her own way home.
The Lights of London
The lights of London seem bright to Kitty Miller , but their sparkle soon fades when she finds herself alone and destitute, at the mercy of those that inhabit the fog-bound streets and alleyways of the East End . When the feisty young prostitute, Tibs Tyler , takes her under her wing, the two girls, one dark, one fair, set themselves up as a music hall act.
As they desperately try to break free from Tibs’s violent pimp, and to avoid the educated and wealthy yet sinister Dr Tressing , they also hope to make a new life for themselves as the new century breaks.
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