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- Sphere
Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Set in wartime London, this is a sequel to Cockney Waif . Patsy now has a husband and four children, and as the fateful events of September 1939 unfold, London will be shaken by air raids and food shortages, children will be evacuated, and men called up. Patsy wonders if her family can survive.
Elizabeth Waite
Elizabeth Waite was born in Tooting, South London and lived there until she was 34. During the war she worked as a bus conductress at Merton Garage. In 1956 she and her husband moved to Devon and bought their first guesthouse. Now retired, Elizabeth lives in East Sussex. An East End Christmas is her eighteenth novel.
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