2022/56: Without the Moon -- Cathi Unsworth

2022/56: Without the Moon -- Cathi Unsworth

Upon her first taste of gin, it had come to Lil with the force of revelation that only her looks stood between this tantalising taste of glamour and the lifetime of drudgery to which she had been assigned. She awoke in a hotel room in Paddington with a five-pound note on the pillow beside her ... [p. 81]

London, 1942: blackouts, the Blitz, servicemen from abroad, black marketeers, prostitutes, spiritualists ... ( Read more... )