Autumn Alley: Enter a world of gas lights and horse-drawn buses, gin-soaked night clubs and fluttering lace curtains . . .

Lena Kennedy lived all her life in the East End of London and wrote with great energy about the people and times she knew there. She was 67 before her first novel, MAGGIE, was accepted for publication. Since then her bestselling novels have shown her to be among the finest and best loved of contemporary novelists. She died in August 1986.