West End girls
Subtitle: the real lives, loves and friendships of 1940's Soho and its working girls
By: Barbara Tate
Publisher: Orion; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781409116066
Subjects: Prostitution; History; Social life and customs
Description: Barbara Tate was 17 when she heard the whispered word that would change her life: Soho. It would take four years for Barbara to escape her loveless home but when she finally made it to the forbidden streets of Soho - just as London was recovering from the trauma of the second world war - things would never be the same again. When she takes a job as Faye's maid, Barbara imagines she'll be housekeeping. But down a shabby backstreet, Barbara discovers the secret lives of Soho's working girls. An astonishing world full of fierce friendships and bitter rivalries, dangerous men and desperate measures, Barbara soon learns that taking the money from a staggering supply of punters and making copious amounts of tea are only the bare essentials. She will need to be nursemaid, protector and confidante to impossible, adorable, self-destructive Mae.

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