At the Mile End Gate - Sally Worboyes

It’s 1945, the war is over and the soldiers are coming back to the bomb-ravaged East End. Tom Smith is one of the thousands who are returning home. It’s been an eventful war, what with a spell of desertion, and Tom can’t wait to see his wife Jessie, their son

Billy and the new baby daughter he hasn’t even laid eyes on.

Life back home wasn’t easy either though, especially when Jessie’s army pension was stopped. So when she was told to put baby Emma-Rose into a home for her own good, she thought it was best. But how will Tom take the news? And how will he react when he learns that Jessie’s old boyfriend has been helping her during the war?