Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End Factories.
The Sugar Girls went straight to No.
10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller List, spending five weeks in the top ten.
'On an autumn day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne walked the short distance from her house to Tate & Lyle's refinery on the shining curve of the Thames.
Looking up at the giant gates, Ethel felt like she had been preparing for this moment all her life.
She smoothed down her frizzy hair, scraped a bit of dirt off.
Harper The sugar girls, paperback/duncan barrett
