Book description
Sunday Collins is less than happy with her lot in war-torn London,
working in the sweaty, steamy laundry round the corner from her home in
a stark Holloway council flat known as 'the buildings' where she has
been brought up by May Collins, a Salvation Army Officer who found her
on the Sally Army steps along with her bossy sister Louie. Sunday lives
for Saturday nights, when she makes the most of her Betty Grable looks
at the Athenaeum Dance Hall. But Sunday's recklessly lived life is
changed dramatically when, one summer morning in 1944, the laundry
receives a direct hit from one of Hitler's V-1s, and she finds she is -
and it seems permanently - deaf... Victor Pemberton is a successful
radio playwright and TV producer, and has worked with some of the great
names of entertainment, including Benny Hill and Dodie Smith, had a
longstanding correspondence with Stan Laurel and scripted and produced
many of the BBC's 'Dr Who' series. In recent years he has worked as a
producer for Jim Henson, and set up his own production company, whose
first TV documentary won an Emmy Award.
