Over Bethnal Green

East End Trilogy #2

by Sally Worboyes

Jessie Warner has married Tom Smith and their baby is almost due. Settling down into their new home in Bethnal Green, Jessie looks forward to her new life even though Tom is continually getting into mischief that borders on the downright criminal. Then the grim outside world intrudes when war begins and Tom is called up almost at once, leaving Jessie to cope alone when the air raids start over the East End. And when Tom does a runner and goes AWOL, things get rapidly worse. Meanwhile Jessie's clever twin Hannah has been recruited to help at Bletchley Park, cracking the Germans' communications code.

Genres: Historical Fiction

442 pages, Paperback

First published November 2, 2000

About the author

Sally Worboyes was born and grew up in Stepney with four brothers and a sister, and she brings some of the raw history of her own family background to her East End sagas. She now lives in Norfolk with her husband, with whom she has three grown-up children. She has written several plays which have been broadcast on Anglia Television and Radio Four. She also adapted her own play and novel, WILD HOPS, as a musical, The Hop Pickers.

Reviews

[Maureen Farrugia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Published: 2000| Set: 1938...

My copy was a hard back with the image pictured ☆

Sally Worboyes acknowledges and gives thanks to the staff at Bancroft Library in
Stepney Green, esspecially to the chief Historian and his assistant for their help with research, their ongoing interest and support.

Bancroft Library is a small library on Bancroft Road opposite 🏡🖤 ❤ 💙 🏡
There is a bigger library in the area, but Bancroft was Sally Worboyes go to:)

The Parish Church of St Mathhew and St Paul's Church in Gosset Street were completely destroyed from bombing.

♥️ Those of the War Effort ♥️

War was declared in September 1939 and the British Red Cross joined forces with
The Order of St John to help the sick and wounded. ... As they'd done in the First
World War, they formed the Joint War Organisation.

Next door to the Bancroft Library, at the RO.
Lunch tickets and tickets to get bread and other basic necessities were given out.

Free bus service in motion

The Salvation Army was at work in The Mission Hall running a voluntary canteen.

The Sally Army ran mobile canteens.

The Women's Voluntary Service

The Westminster Women's Aid

[joan Hunter · Rating 5 out of 5]

A real page turner

You were carried into the story, the horror of what Jessie endured but the friendships she made through her travelling up and down England made the story very interesting. Well done Sally Worboyes

[Asmaa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not as gripping as others but good

[Michelle Swann · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really good read in The East End Saga, lots of spelling mistakes.

[olwen shandley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great

Really good Facebook 1&2 can't wait to read more hope there is a book 3&4 really want to know what happens