Life for East End families like Pat's was always a struggle. She worked for years in Tate & Lyle's sugar factory while her husband Charlie took on two jobs so their growing family could survive. Until one day Charlie came home with a brilliant idea - they should take over The Rising Sun pub in Bromley-by-Bow. In this charming memoir Pat describes her years as a pub landlady and vividly evokes the East End community she served in the 1960s, the extraordinary characters she encountered and the changes that swept through society at that time. She also reveals why she and Charlie moved to Essex, and what it felt like to become a star of The Only Way is Essex in her seventies. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Title: Queen of the Rising Sun: From Landlady of an East End Pub to Essex Nan
Publisher: Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom, London
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1447218787
ISBN 13: 9781447218784
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 222 grams

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A charming, evocative memoir of her years as an East End landlady, written by The Only Way is Essex’s Pat Brooker

Life for East End families like Pat's was always a struggle. She worked for years in Tate & Lyle's sugar factory while her husband Charlie took on two jobs so their growing family could survive. Until one day Charlie came home with a brilliant idea—they should take over The Rising Sun pub in Bromley-by-Bow. In this charming memoir, Pat describes her years as a pub landlady and vividly evokes the East End community she served in the 1960s, the extraordinary characters she encountered, and the changes that swept through society at that time. She also reveals why she and Charlie moved to Essex, and what it felt like to become a star of The Only Way is Essex in her seventies.

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Patricia Brooker was catapulted to fame as the matriarch of the Wright clan in ITV1's The Only Way is Essex, where she quickly became one of the most popular characters.

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