the End Of The Blitz-and The War-does Not Spell The End Of Trouble For Londoners....
the End Of World War Ii In Europe Spreads Joy Through London, But For Zelda Fluck The News Isn't All Good. The End To Hostilities Will Bring Her Violent Husband Charlie Home. It Also Sets Off A Chain Of Events That Brings More Strife And Destruction To The People Of Paradise Gardens, Hackney - Including Zelda S Squabbling Family And The Mysterious Local Healer, Zinnia Makepeace - Than Did The Blitz.
that's Not All. A New Boss Is Making Zelda's Life Difficult. Zelda's Nephew, Tony, Is Hanging Around Brian Hole, A One-boy Crime Wave And Only Child Of Ma Hole, Leader Of The Local Spivs.
but Tony Can Sing - He Has, In Fact, The Voice Of An Angel - And Miss Makepeace Knows A Voice Coach In Soho. The People Zelda Meets There Change Her Life. Bert And Maggie Featherby Offer Her A Way Out Of Hackney And Her Failed Marriage, While The Local Hood, Maltese Joe, Decides To Take On Ma Hole.
the Book Ends With The Birth Of Rosie, The Child Narrator Of Pip Granger's Agatha Award Nominee Not All Tarts Are Apple (hc, 1-59058-033-8; Penguin Pbk 0-14-200332-8) And The Widow Ginger (hc, 1-59058-057-5; Penguin Pbk 0-14-200463-4).
publishers Weekly this Warm Prequel To Agatha-finalist Granger's Not All Tarts Are Apple And The Widow Ginger Follows The Post-wwii Adventures Of Zelda Fluck And Her Neighbors In Paradise Gardens, A Section Of Hackney In London's East End. Peace Has Just Broken Out And The Blitzkrieg Has Ceased, But Zelda And Her Large Working-class Family Are Confronted With Food Shortages, Bombed-out Buildings And The Camaraderie And Scheming That Hard Times Bring. Ma Hole And Her Son Are Engaged In Their Customary Crime Spree. Someone Is Stealing Petrol. And Zinnia Makepeace, The Mysterious Healer, Is Being Threatened, Her House Burgled And Cats Stolen. Worst Of All, Charlie, Zelda's Abusive Husband, Is Due Home From The Army. Readers Won't Find A Major Crime In These Pages, But They Will Find A Wealth Of Vivid, Likable Characters In A Fully Realized World That Casts A Bewitching Spell. And Granger Gets The Atmosphere Of 1940s London Just Right, Down To The Fish-paste Sandwiches And The Seamed Nylon Stockings Women Drew Onto Their Legs. Gradually, Zelda Forges A Life Beyond The Restrictions Of Paradise Gardens, Moving To Bohemian Soho, Where Her Talented Nephew Tony Takes Voice Lessons. This Charming And Enticing Novel Stops Just Shy Of Becoming Too Sentimental: It's A Kind Of Time Machine To What London Life Could Or Should Have Been. Agent, Mcintosh & Otis. (jan. 10) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Pip Granger

Poision Pen Press

United States, United States of America

1st ed, Scottsdale, AZ, 2004

January 1, 2005

0, PS, 2005

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Prequel to: Not all tarts are apple.

The end of WW II brings Zelda's violent husband home and also sets off a chain of events that brings more strife and destruction to the people of Paradise Gardens

2023-06-28