Penny McDonald

Former Detective Chief Inspector, Tom Douglas has moved to a isolated village for some peace and quiet. But he is drawn into a web of deceit after a hit and run on the back road, and his every instinct tells him that what happened that night was more than a tragic accident.

During the Blitz, thousands of women left school at 14 to work in the bustling factories of London’s East End. Of them all, it was at Tate & Lyle’s where you could earn the most generous wages and enjoy the best social life. This is an evocative, moving story of hunger, hardship and happiness which provides a moving insight into a lost way of life.