Sally Worboyes was born and grew up in Stepney with four brothers and a sister, and she brings some of the raw history of her own family background to her East End sagas. She now lives in Norfolk with her husband, with whom she has three grown-up children. She has written several plays which have been broadcast on Anglia Television and Radio Four. She also adapted her own play and novel, Wild Hops, as a musical, The Hop-Pickers.
Genres: Sagas
Series
East End Sagas
1. Down Stepney Way (1999)
2. Over Bethnal Green (2000)
3. At the Mile End Gate (2001)
1. Down Stepney Way (1999)
2. Over Bethnal Green (2000)
3. At the Mile End Gate (2001)
Novels
Wild Hops (1994)
Docker's Daughter (1995)
The Dinner Lady (1996)
Red Sequins (1996)
Keep on Dancing (1997)
Whitechapel Mary (2001)
The Girl from Brick Lane (2002)
Banished from Bow (2002)
Down by Tobacco Dock (2003)
Where Sparrows Nest (2003)
Time Will Tell (2004)
Jamaica Street (2004)
Room for a Lodger (2006)
Lipstick and Powder (2007)
Handbags and Gladrags? (2008)
Valentine Moon (2009)
Docker's Daughter (1995)
The Dinner Lady (1996)
Red Sequins (1996)
Keep on Dancing (1997)
Whitechapel Mary (2001)
The Girl from Brick Lane (2002)
Banished from Bow (2002)
Down by Tobacco Dock (2003)
Where Sparrows Nest (2003)
Time Will Tell (2004)
Jamaica Street (2004)
Room for a Lodger (2006)
Lipstick and Powder (2007)
Handbags and Gladrags? (2008)
Valentine Moon (2009)
Plays show
Non fiction show
Omnibus editions show
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