Bombsites and Lollipops: My 1950s East End Childhood

Description

From stories of her parents partying with the Krays in the East End of old, to the optimistic swinging sixties of London's West End, this is the intimate story of a unique childhood, set against the backdrop of squalid, post-War Hackney. In this honest and sincere memoir, Jacky Hyams revisits the `live for today' world of her childhood, a world where money was no object, growing up in a household underpinned by betting, booze and bribes.

Jacky Hyams is a London-based journalist and non fiction author who has written extensively, on a wide range of topics, for many of the leading mass market newspapers and magazines in the UK and Australia for several years.