Tanner Trilogy 03 - Backstreet Child
by Harry Bowling
A warm and authentic story of Cockney life during the Second World WarSalmon Lane is a quiet Bermondsey backstreet lined with modest brick houses and paved with cobbles. This close-knit community is forced to draw on all their reserves of courage and humour to survive the difficulties of poverty, rationing and nightly air raids. And even as the men are called up, go missing in action or are killed, and homes are bombed, their extraordinary Cockney spirit shines through...