Barbara Tate’s memoir West End Girls is a totally absorbing and revelatory memoir about the author’s two-year stint working as a maid for the Queen of Soho – aka 1940s prostitute Mae. It’s a remarkable glimpse at a lost Soho – grubby, still a residential neighbourhood with small businesses, seedy…
Category: Memoirs
Playland – a shattering memoir
Posted originally on robinjarossi.com 22 3 18 I do some work as a book editor. This month has seen the publication of a memoir I helped to prepare that was one of the most shocking and disturbing I have ever read. Playland: Secrets of a Forgotten Scandal is by Anthony…