Author | Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi |
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Language | English |
Subject | Tate & Lyle, The East End |
Published | 2012 (Collins) |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Pages | 352pp (paperback) |
ISBN | 978-0-00-744847-0 |
Followed by | GI Brides |
Website | http://www.thesugargirls.com |
The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End is a work of narrative non-fiction based on interviews with women who worked in Tate & Lyle's East End factories in Silvertown from the mid-1940s onwards. Written by Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi, it was published by Collins in 2012.[1] The authors were inspired to write it by Jennifer Worth's Call the Midwife.[2]