A Cockney saga set in late 1920s Rotherhithe, ELLIE OF ELMLEIGH SQUARE is the story of a young girl who always seems to be caught in the crossfire between her out-of-work father and her harassed, bitter mother. Her job in a local café is the only bright light in her mundane existence and when a charming, if rather elderly, customer starts paying her attention, she is flattered and excited at the prospects that might be opening up for her. But secretly she still hankers after the-boy-across-the-square, whose mother, now in an asylum, has always had an unexplained enemity with her own.

It is up to Ellie, with the help of the Square's local eccentric, Dirty Molly, to decide where her future must lie...

(Paperback, ISBN: 0747253072, £6.99)