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For thirty years, the O’Donnels have ruled the East End, but there’s a price to pay for this power, and it’s usually in blood.

The Sins Of Their Fathers

Of Woman Born

an emotional and enthralling saga set in the Swinging Sixties from bestselling author Gilda O’Neill

Playing Around

a dramatic saga of how an innocent young girl finds herself entangled in the 1960s East End underworld from bestselling author Gilda O’Neill

Getting There

a spellbinding saga about life in the East End during the Second World War from the bestselling author Gilda O’Neill

Secrets of the Heart

a compelling saga about life in the East End during the Second World War from the bestselling author Gilda O’Neill

Rough Justice

Memories of a Vanished Way of Life

Lost Voices

Make Us Traitors

Memories of Life in Cockney London

My East End

Our Street

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East End Life in the Second World War

Our Street is the perfect companion to Gilda O'Neill's bestselling My East End. This book focuses on the lives of Londoners in the East End during the Second World War.  Showing the concerns, hopes and fears of these so-called 'ordinary people' Our Street illustrates these times by looking at the every day rituals which marked the patterns of daily life during WWII. It is an important book and also an affectionate record of an often fondly remembered, more communal, way of life that has all but disappeared.

Our Street has sold 18,000 copies in hardback to date.

Step into the everyday lives of East End Londoners during the Second World War 
 
'I wanted to write about a time and a place when living in such a street - or rather a community - would have been part of so-called ordinary working people's everyday experience, but when the circumstances couldn't exactly be described as normal.' 
 
What was life like during WWII? Away from the battles? On the street where you live? 
 
Gilda O'Neill's Our Street takes a look at the world outside of the war. Told through the daily rituals of those living in London's East End, it shares the concerns, hopes, fears and sense of community that grew during tremendous hardship. 
 
The perfect companion to Gilda O'Neill's bestselling My East End, this is an important book and an affectionate record of an often fondly remembered, more communal, way of life that has all but disappeared. 
 
'A rich tapestry . . . a finely detailed examination of our not so distant past. Her book is as much a piece of history as the accounts it contains' Time Out 
 
'Every page is a delight. Every chapter made vivid by a writer who has poured heart and soul into her book' Daily Mail

Gilda O'Neill grew up in the East End of London. Having left schoold aged fifteen, she later returned to education as a mature student and went on to take three university degrees. Since 1990 she has been writing full-tiem and has published ten novels and to non-fiction works. Gilda O'neill is married with two grown-up children and lives in the East End.

Our Street

East End Life in the Second World War

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