That Summer in Eagle Street

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A01=Harry Bowling
Author_Harry Bowling
Blitz
Call the Midwife
Category=FT
Cockney
East End
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Family
London
Nostalgia
Picture Post
Saga
Second World War

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  • ISBN 9780755340316
  • Weight: 380g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Sep 2007
  • Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Eagle Street is a little backstreet of the Tower Bridge market, home to a close-knit community of diverse characters.

Dora and John Weston live in one of the small terraced houses with their five children. Amongst their neighbours are the two street gossips; Doris and Phyllis, who know everyone's business and aged Bill Simpson, who tends his pigeons and watches the glorious sunsets from the flat roof of Sunlight Buildings.

It was on this same roof in the summer of 1940 that Linda Weston first fell in love with Charlie Bradley - a childhood crush which has developed and stood the test of separation. Now Charlie has returned from having done his National sevice, keen to make a good future with Linda. When they are both offered jobs by the notorious Carter brothers - local gang leaders - they jump at the chance. But the rival 'Kerrigan' gang hears of the Carters' success and decides that something needs to be done about it - putting Charlie and Linda at risk...

Harry was born in 1931 in a back street off the Tower Bridge Road. Only when his own children began to ask questions about the war, did Harry realise how many stories he had to tell. He became known as 'the King of Cockney sagas', and he wrote eighteen bestselling novels of London life. After Harry died in 1999, the Harry Bowling Prize was set up in his memory.

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