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Gilda O'Neill
Book List in Order: 15 titles
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The Bells of Bow
- Jun-1999
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To the outside world seventeen year-old identical twins Babs and Evie Bell are as close as two sisters can be. In fact they are as different as chalk and cheese. Babs is the sensible one, taking on responsibility for the house, and for their dad, Geo...
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My East End
- Oct-2000
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'Every page is a delight. Every chapter made vivid by a writer who has poured heart and soul into her book' Val Hennessy, Daily MailThe East End of London - cockneys, criminals, street markets, pub singalongs, dog racing, jellied eels . . . It is a p...
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Make Us Traitors
- Jan-2004
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THEIR FATHERS RULED THE EAST END IN THE SIXTIES. NOW THEY INHERIT THE LEGACY The O'Donnell family ran their manor in the East End with a fist of iron, keeping control of their gambling, prostitution and protection rackets. But gang warfare brought h...
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Of Woman Born
- Jun-2005
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The third novel in the very popular East End Trilogy: “Her vivid, flint-edged picture of London’s East End in the sixties leaps off the page with its sardonic dialogue and sharply realized characters . . . you’ll find it very difficult to put t...
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Rough Justice
- Mar-2008
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The Flanagans, Tanners and Lovells all live on the top floor of a crumbling Victorian tenement in the heart of London’s East End. It’s 1936 and Britain is in the grip of the Depression.
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Secrets of the Heart
- Jun-2008
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The second novel in the spellbinding new series about life in the East End during the Second World War. The disturbing loss of social stability brings with it the feeling that it is only what happens today that counts for anything.
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The Lights of London
- Jul-2013
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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. Until the feisty young prostitute, Tibs...
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The Cockney Girl
- Apr-2019
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An East End mother and daughter travel from London to work the hop fields of Kent in this gripping saga of love and loss on the eve of the Great War. The annual migration from London to the hop fields of Kent is normally a longed-for escape fr...
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The Flower Girl
- Apr-2019
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An enthralling saga set in London’s East End at the height of the 1930s…Cissie Flowers has had her fair share of hardships but she’s always found a way to smooth over her worries and crack on with raising her two young children. Until, that is,...
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The Whitechapel Girl
- Apr-2019
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In this enthralling Victorian drama, a young woman tries to escape poverty in London’s East End as Jack the Ripper stalks the streets. Ettie Wilkins must get out of Whitechapel. As her mother sinks deeper into alcoholism, the volatile lodger...
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Dream on
A COMPASSIONATE, DRAMATIC SAGA OF LIFE IN THE EAST END IN THE EARLY FIFTIES. Ginny has a dream. A huge, pillared house with a sweeping staircase, white and perfect. But life, in reality, is different. She is barely more than a child when her family i...
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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 ...
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