Down by Tobacco Dock

Sally Worboyes was born and grew up in Stepney with four brothers and a sister, and she brings some of the raw history of her own family background to her East End sagas. She now lives in Norfolk with her husband, with whom she has three grown-up children. She has written several plays which have been broadcast on Radio Four. She also adapted her own play and novel, Wild Hops, as a musical, The Hop Pickers.

Unbridled passions run riot - Daily Mail on Wild HopsAn excellent book combining humour and passion - Telegraph and ArgusIt's a rich, vivid, three-dimensional, gutsy and sexy narrative which has you turning the pages into the early hours - Eastern Daily Express on Wild HopsShe brings the East End to life - Barbara WindsorSizzles with passion - Guardian on Wild Hops