Autumn Alley

by Lena Kennedy

Book Overview

Gas lights and horse drawn buses, gin-soaked night clubs and fluttering lace curtains: enter the world of Autumn Alley. Here you'll find Maud, the formidable Irish-American suffragette; sulky... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0708819788
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Futura
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A n excellent novel set at turn of the century London

This is the story of Tim an Irish labourer, his slow friend Dandy and their wifes and families living in a gaslit cobbled alley at the beggining of 1900. Read about Maud, Dandies loud American wife her beloved son, who goes off to fight in the first world war and tearaway daughter Colleen. Discover the dark secret the Brown twins accross the alley share, and their strange sister Ellen. This is an excellent book if you like to get the feel of old London and life before the Great War.

A taste of real life during WWII

This book is set in an alley in a poor sections of London and allows you to become part of the lives of it's inhabitants. All of the residents come from different races, colors and creeds and how they share their lives through joy, pain, politics, society and WWII.