Queen of the Rising Sun: From Landlady of an East End Pub to Essex Nan

Nanny Pat

ISBN 10: 1447218787 / ISBN 13: 9781447218784

Published by Pan Macmillan, 2013

About this Item

2013. 1st Edition. Paperback. A charming, evocative memoir of her years as an East End landlady, by Nanny Pat from The Only Way is Essex Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJP; 3JM; APT; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 250. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Seller Inventory # V9781447218784

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Queen of the Rising Sun: From Landlady of an East End Pub to Essex Nan
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447218787
• ISBN 13: 9781447218784
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

 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.