Not All Tarts Are Apple: A perfectly feel-good comic saga from the East End

by Pip Granger

Overview

A wonderfully warm and charming London saga, set in the Soho of the 1950s. If you like Donna Douglas and Nancy Revell, you'll love this!

"She brings the East End to life..." - Barbara Windsor
"A poignant story with a strong authentic backdrop..."-Woman&Home
"I enjoyed this book so much and would recommend it to anyone..." -- ***** Reader review
"Great fun to read, amusing..." -- ***** Reader review

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WINNER OF THE HARRY BOWLING PRIZE FOR FICTION.

WHAT IF EVERYTHING YOU KNEW COULD BE TAKEN FROM YOU IN A FLASH?

Rosie has always lived with her eagle-eyed Auntie Maggie and Uncle Bert in their café in Soho, often visited by her mother - the mysterious, and often drunk, Perfumed Lady. Yet, her mother's family - landed gentry who hail from a country estate near Bath - are desperate to get their hands on Sophie and will stop at nothing - even kidnap- to get her...

Will Rosie have to leave the Soho and the neighbours she knows and loves - Great Aunt Dodie, Madame Zelda and Paulette, Sharky, Maltese Joe and the Campini Family who run the delicatessen in Old Compton Street - for good?

Rosie's story continues in The Widow Ginger.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781446437940
Publisher:	Transworld Publishers Limited
Publication date:	01/11/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	328 KB

About the Author

Part of Pip Granger's early childhood was spent in the back seat of a light aircraft as her father smuggled brandy, tobacco and books across the English Channel to be sold in 1950s Soho, where she lived above the Two Is Café in Old Compton Street. She travelled in Europe and Asia in the 1960s and '70s, and worked as a Special Needs teacher in Hackney in the 1980s, before quitting teaching to pursue her long-cherished ambition to write. She now lives in the West Country with her husband and pets.

Pip Granger's novels, Not All Tarts Are Apple, which won the Harry Bowling Prize for fiction, The Widow Ginger, and Trouble in Paradise are all available as Corgi paperbacks.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

It's a book that warms the heart...We didn't want it to end. (The Denver Post)

A very different and truly beguiling debut. (Kirkus Reviews)

[A] captivating first novel . . . Granger celebrates London low life-through the engaging voice of her endearing young narrator. (Publishers Weekly)

Editorial Reviews

It's a book that warms the heart...We didn't want it to end. (The Denver Post)



A very different and truly beguiling debut. (Kirkus Reviews)

[A] captivating first novel . . . Granger celebrates London low life-through the engaging voice of her endearing young narrator. (Publishers Weekly)

From the Publisher