No Peace For the Wicked - Hardcover

Granger, Pip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593051378 ISBN 13: 9780593051375

Publisher: Bantam Press, 2005

Synopsis

The fourth compelling story in Pip Granger’s acclaimed Soho series featuring nine-year-old Rosie and a fascinating cast of characters from 1950s Soho. Peace, a young Chinese girl, has run away from boarding school and come to live with Lizzy, a heart-warming new character destined for adventure and romance.

About this title

About the Author

Part of Pip Grangers early childhood was spent in the back seat of a light aircraft as her father smuggled brandy, tobacco and books across the English Channel to be sold in 1950s Soho, where she lived above the Two Is Caf in Old Compton Street. She travelled in Europe and Asia in the 1960s and 70s, and worked as a Special Needs teacher in Hackney in the 1980s, before quitting teaching to pursue her long cherished ambition to write. She now lives in the West Country with her husband and pets. Pip Grangers novels, Not All Tarts Are Apple, which won the Harry Bowling Prize for fiction, The Widow Ginger, and Trouble in Paradise are all available as Corgi paperbacks.

Review

Who will finally replace Ruth Rendell and P.D. James as icons of the British crime novel when those two worthy Dames (of the British Empire, I

mean) finally call it quits? Denise Mina and Morag Joss are certainly likely candidates. Less likely but equally deserving is Pip Granger, whose books are set in London’s working class neighborhoods in the 1950s, when the city and its inhabitants were still trying to find a way to reconcile a blasted past and an uncertain future. If you read Not All Tarts Are Apple, The Widow Ginger or last year’s Trouble In Paradise, you’ll know what a rich and yeasty brew Granger has distilled from an array of characters who

range from the flamboyant to the bizarre.

No Peace For The Wicked is set in 1956, in the burgeoning sex and art center of Soho where the narrator/heroine Lizzy lives above a pub very much

like the one on Old Compton St. where Granger herself lived as a child, and also contains a fascinating portrait of the Chinese dockside district known

as Limehouse a once seedy and dangerous place now gentrified beyond all recognition. A 16-year-old part-Chinese girl named Peace who comes to live

with Lizzy’s family disappears, which sets in motion the Limehouse visit and other mysteries and adventures. Granger’s greatest strength is making all

sorts of human behavior seem as normal as sliced bread. -- Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune 12.11.2005

Four scores in the Soho series of novels...

Praise for Trouble in Paradise
"Granger gets the atmosphere of 1940s London just right, down to the fish-paste sandwiches and the seamed 'nylon' stockings women drew onto their legs."
--Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0593051378
• ISBN 13: 9780593051375
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 339