An authentic & moving romantic saga set against the backdrop of the docks streets markets & pubs of Whitechapel from the author of Wild Hops & The Dinner Lady Young Kay Armstrong wants to break away from her tough East End background where her friends are turning to crime A job in the City seems like the perfect answer
- but when she plans a holiday to Spain that involves forging her passport she takes a step too far Meanwhile her dad Jack is spearheading the great dock strike He & his wife Laura worry about their headstrong daughter especially the new set of friends introducing her to fashionable restaurants & the pleasures of drinking And when Zacchi the handsome gypsy boyfriend of her past reappears Kay has some hard choices to make