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The 1950's had it all!

The 1950's had it all! Espresso coffee bars, the Kray twins, illegal hooch, London night clubs, racketeers, crime capers, escorts, post-war glam waving goodbye to utilitarian austerity. Rationing was just a shadowy memory by the time the 60s dawned. And what a decade that was to be! Icons by the dozens; Elvis, the Beetles, Rock n'Roll, Flower Power, The Pill, you name it. These glittering years offered an abundance of the X Factor, although at the time, Simon Cowell was light years away from his unbelievably successful creation.
I loved writing Bella because I was there, full of ambition as Bella was, attempting to aspire to something different, to be different, to choose peace instead of war, to take life and not fight or repress it, but make love to it instead. Bella doesn't hesitate to take her chance of happiness. She is ready to sell her soul in order to capture that fleeting moment.
Nothing can stop Bella - as it didn't stop us.

 

BELLA OF BOW STREET

1941

Neglected by their drunken mother, young Bella Doyle and her brother Terry are left to roam the streets, fending for themselves and skipping school with ease. When her mother's boyfriend turns violent, Bella finds refuge with Micky Bryant, a local ne'er-do-well.

After the war, Bella marries Micky, helping him run his business as a club owner and manufacturer of illegal hooch. But with her husband falling ever deeper into a life of crime, Bella finds herself out of her depth as she struggles to stay one step ahead of the law, cope with Micky's increasingly wayward behaviour and control her growing feelings for his elder brother, Ronnie.

It takes a shocking tragedy for Bella to realize that she must seize control of events in order to escape the squalor of the East End and shape her own destiny...

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