Hello everyone! This close-up image of Lizzie of Langley Street is a stunner! The full book jacket cover profiles Lizzie against the busy backdrop of Cox Street market, my East End meeting place for all the Rivers  characters (and the blueprint of Chrisp Street market in London’s East End.)

Marking WORLD BOOK DAY I’m happy to confirm that LIZZIE OF LANGLEY STREET is to be published in July of this year, ahead of Lizzie’s gritty sequel THE FIGHT FOR LIZZIE FLOWERS.

I’m really looking forward to a double celebration of two published novels at the end of summer. And can’t wait to join you on social media especially since my Google+ posts brought in such a lot of interest at the mention of my Blitz recipes (and their slimming qualities!) The first of which is to be published in my March newsletter.

Now here’s a word or two from Simon & Schuster, my publisher, on Lizzie …

“Following her mother’s untimely death, market trader’s daughter Lizzie Allen is facing desperate times. Her father Tom, crippled in the fighting during WWI, has been left a broken and bitter man; her elder brother Vinnie is in serious trouble with the local hard man; her two younger sisters are in danger of being taken into care, and her sweetheart Danny is heading for Australia to seek his fortune. Determined to keep her family together, yet unable to escape the poverty and degradation of the slums, the heartbroken Lizzie is tricked into marriage by Danny’s unscrupulous brother, Frank. Will she ever find the strength to protect her family from the underworld thugs who monopolise the Isle of Dogs? Can she escape her increasingly unhappy and violent marriage? And will she ever be reunited with her one true love, former barrow boy, Danny Flowers?”

So has this whetted your appetite? If so, you can find LIZZIE OF LANGLEY STREET for sale in July with AMAZON, SIMON & SCHUSTER, WH SMITH all online bookshops and in many small bookstores and other supermarkets. Meanwhile I’ll look forward to meeting you with just a click of the Google+ and social media tabs below.

Lizzie of Langley Street, sold in Kindle, paperback and hardback.

See you soon and happy reading on World Book Day.