The Dinner Lady

by Sally Worboyes

Patsy gives up her son to his natural father, and his wife, because she discovers that he doesn't really fit in with her lifestyle. But now Jac is six, and Patsy wants him back. She sets out to trick Jack and Laura into losing their son, determined to use all means to achieve her goal. From the author of WILD HOPS.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

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

[Laura Bagnall · Rating 3 out of 5]

20 june mansfield libr
love the way sally warboyes makes you gasp at the turn of the story
shocking the way jac was taken away from patsy but she schemes to get him back by any means necessary lying cheating she is a really sociopath nothing will stop her
jack armstrong had an affair and jac was the by product but laura has taken him on as her own he is 7 and they havent told him that he is adopted
her other book red sequins links a little to some of the characters but cant make the link yet
patsy uses disguises and tricks her way into their lives and then kidnaps jac such a good story

[Maureen Farrugia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wild Hops
Docker's Daughter
The Dinner Lady | Final book of this trilogy

Published 1996 | Set 1966

I liked the School Days title:) but not at all keen with the story line.
Even so
Sally Worboyes thanks ☺Bancroft Library for their well-stocked research room.

!Not forgetting the dish Chips&Eggs ☺

Fashion ☺ Cotten Gingham. Blue Grass Perfume, still found in chemists today:)

[Asmaa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Binge read it in a day couldnt put it down just sad tgats last in trilogy id love to know more about the family