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.