West End Girls: The Real Lives, Loves and Friendships of 1940s Soho and its Working Girls

Barbara Tate was 17 when she heard the whispered word that would change her life: Soho. It would take four years for Barbara to escape her loveless home but when she finally made it to the forbidden streets of Soho — just as London was recovering from the trauma of the second world war — things would never be the same again.

There the naive Barbara meets the beautiful and capricious Mae. When she takes a job as Mae's maid, Barbara imagines she'll be housekeeping. But down a shabby backstreet, Barbara discovers the secret lives of Soho's working girls.

• Author
• Barbara Tate

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 320

• Publisher
• Orion Publishing

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781409116066

• Genres
• memoir, history, biography, society

• Release date
• 2010