Anna has everything to make her happy - a husband, a lovely little house in Bethnal Green, two much longed-for twin baby boys. But recently her husband Frank has been acting differently. He's started coming home late, drinking more heavily. More than once Anna has been sure she's caught a whiff of perfume on his shirts. When confronted, Frank brushes Anna's cautious questions aside, but somehow, Anna knows deep down that something is wrong with her marriage.
Anna's sisters run un upmarket escort agency from a fine Victorian house nearby. It can be a risky business, but watching the carefree, laughter-filled banter of the women who work there, Anna begins to long for the girl she once was. Does being a wife and mother really mean that her dancing days are over? Maybe not. Old family friend Rob, a policeman who walks a fine line between right and wrong, is keen to show Anna a good time, even if her husband isn't...
Author Biography
Sally Worboyes was born and grew up in Stepney with four brothers and a sister. She now lives in Norfolk with her husband and three children. She has written plays for TV and broadcast on Radio Four and has adapted her own play and novel Wild Hops as a musical, The Hop-Pickers.
Previous titles:
Lipstick and Powder (HC Sep 07);
East End Girl;
Room for a Lodger;
Jamaica Street;
Time Will Tell;
Where Sparrows Nest;
Down by Tobacco Dock;
Dinner Lady;
Banished from Bow;
Girl from Brick Lane;
Keep on Dancing;
Red Sequins;
Whitchapel Mary;
At The End Mile Gate;
Docker's Daughter;
Wild Hops;
Over Bethnal Green;
Down Stepney Way
