Wild Hops

by Sally Worboyes

It's 1959. The Armstrongs are off on their annual hop-picking holiday. But bad news greets them when they hear of plans to mechanise the hop-picking, robbing them of their country idyll. It becomes clear that this summer will changes lives forever.

506 pages, Hardcover

First published May 3, 2001

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 3 out of 5]

First book of a trilogy:)

[Asmaa · Rating 5 out of 5]

slow to start but then couldnt put it down