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West End Girls
Orion
by Barbara Tate
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ISBN/ASIN: 1409116069
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Sales Rank: 892
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Media: Hardcover
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Product Group: Book
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| Product Description |
| The real lives, loves and friendship of 1940s Soho and its working girls. |
| Customer Reviews: Average Rating: 4.5/5 | | West End Girls: Rating: 2/5 |
| OK, some interesting historical context. The author may have been a great artist but not a great writer. Do I really care? | | WEST END GIRLS: Rating: 5/5 |
| Just unputdownable. Through the author's eyes I was fascinated by her portrayal of London in the '50's. It is sad to note that she is now deceased and I only hope that she lived to enjoy the success of her reminisce. | | West End Girls: Rating: 5/5 |
For those of who who remember the 1950's and early 1960's London Soho with its day world of Italian restaurants and excellent veg shops, and it's night world that respectable people and children could only safely glimpse through the window of a passing car Barbara Tate's book is a nostalgic reminder of a world long past.
Compared to today's world the Soho night-town, despite all our parents warnings, was really a vulgar innocent. The night-town crew of street girls, pimps and petty gangsters more-or-less kept to themselves, and the passerby was seldom molested or manhandled, and Barbara's posthumous book catches all the cheekiness and seediness of this long-ago world.
For those Londoners who were there, and those who just want to catch an authentic flavour of the time 'West End Girls' can be highly recommended as a thoughtful, well-written, and amusing doorway into post war Soho. | | West End Girls: Rating: 5/5 |
| A superb book. The story really came to life. I couldn't put it down. | | Has its moments!: Rating: 2/5 |
| Not particularly well written. This was a book that was easy to read. Some interesting insights. I have passed it on to friends and they have enjoyed it. | |
