Skinny Lizzie - Elizabeth Waite

SKINNY LIZZIE - South London, 1932. Times are hard for 10-year-old Lizzie and her family. With her father dead, it is up to her mother to scrimp and save to feed the four children. It is Lizzie''s strong instinct for survival that sees her through the horrors of consumption and then wartime. Finally, happily married to Charlie Wilson, she relishes the prospect of a secure future. But Charlie has other ideas. Ideas that will take Lizzie to a lonely life in Devon, to the challenge of a new career and away from her beloved London....

NIPPY - Becky Russell has aspirations in life. Taking a job as a 'nippy', a waitress at one of the West End's most prestigious tea-shops, she enters a privileged and exciting world where men like Gerald Palmer will spare no expense to court her affections. Becky is sure she has fulfilled her dreams but in a rich man's world, the game of love is never simple....