Peace, a beautiful sixteen-year-old part-Chinese girl and Bandy Bunion’s niece, has run away from school, and is taken in by Lizzy. But Peace goes missing a second time, and Lizzy must visit the seedy dock area in Limehouse.
Charting the further misadventures of the characters from the acclaimed Not All Tarts Are Apple, Pip Granger’s newest story of London’s underworld shows her storytelling at its best.
The dark alleyways of 1953 Soho, London, teem with crooks, fortunetellers, cardsharks, and ladies of the night. But all have a soft spot for Rosie, who has become the target of a plot.
The end of World War II in Europe is not good news for everyone. It will bring Zelda Fluck’s violent husband Charlie home and set off a chain of events that brings more strife and destruction to the people of Paradise Gardens,.