The Sugar Girls

The Sugar Girls
AuthorDuncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi
LanguageEnglish
SubjectTate & Lyle, The East End
Published2012 (Collins)
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Pages352pp (paperback)
ISBN978-0-00-744847-0
Followed byGI Brides 
Websitehttp://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]

  1. ^ Nicholls, Matt (23 February 2011). "Sweet! Tate & Lyle lives celebrated". Newham Recorder.
  2. ^ Call the Midwife, The Sugar Girls blog, 20 February 2012.