No Peace For The Wicked
The East-End is brought to life in this heart-warming Cockney saga
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Publisher Description
Perfect for fans of Donna Douglas and Nancy Revell, a feel-good, uplifting and funny saga set in post war London from Sunday Times bestseller Pip Granger.
"A colourful, deeply nostalgic evocation of Soho in the Fifties, drawing heavily on the author's own childhood." -- CHOICE
"She brings the East End to life" -- BARBARA WINDSOR
"Lovely book - enjoyed it immensely. Very funny and very accurate of London in the 1950s." -- ***** Reader review
"A brilliant, amusing, unputdownable book." -- ***** Reader review
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THE WAR MAY BE LONG OVER BUT LIFE IN SOHO IS ANYTHING BUT CALM...
1956: Lizzy is working in Soho when Peace, the daughter of her employer Bandy Bunion's estranged sister, comes to stay. Peace is a beautiful sixteen-year-old part-Chinese girl who has run away from boarding school and who has no intention of going back.
Having lost her own daughter - Rosie's best friend - to leukaemia two years previously, she feels a special bond with Peace.
She also feels that life has been rather quiet recently; but things are about to change dramatically...
When Peace goes missing a second time, and no one knows where she's gone, it looks as though there's only one thing to do. Lizzy asks TC - her new man and a policeman - to help her find Peace, and the first place they must visit is the dock area in Limehouse...
No Peace for the Wicked paints a picture of 1950s Soho so authentic you feel as though you are there...
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The follow-up to Trouble in Paradise finds the center of Granger's working-class world moving from London's East End to the bohemian Soho of 1956. Lizzie Robbins, estranged from her husband, abruptly assumes care for a Chinese girl with cloudy parentage called Peace. When the conscientious Peace vanishes, Lizzie and her neighbors fear she has been kidnapped, and to solve the crime must delve into London's Chinese community and the stranglehold of its gangsters and triads. In contrast to Paradise, this novel deals with a single major crime and, with an adult narrator driving the plot, explores issues of sex and marriage. Granger's strong narrative voice and the tug of community, of characters readers can care about instantaneously, give this book its force and charm. As always, Granger writes about outsiders cross-dressers, clairvoyants, petty cons with utter warmth and not a trace of condescension. There's no parade of bodies, none of the perverse genius of Ruth Rendell or the public school sorts populating Elizabeth George, just characters and unforgettable community.
