He lounged day after day in his chair, complaining about the government, drinking beer and doing a fabulous impression of fuck-all. Then he’d be skiving off, leading his little brothers on wild chases, and the school inspector would be round and they’d have to turn the radio off and all be quiet and hide until the fucker went away. I shivered a bit more, because I was living in a council flat and couldn’t afford to run the heating.

Then my editor pointed out to me that it’s 15 years since that very first Annie book Dirty Game was published. Before you ask, yes *nods*, I can confirm that I held daily briefings with The Mommy detailing the current state of play in the book alongside theories on personal agendas and who’d copped it next! The story zips along, love, death and betrayal in equal measure, bad boy comes good, family is everything and I feel there’s more to come. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Apart from getting established in the protection business, he was also getting to be an expert thief.Annie was a dark-haired, red-faced little scrap, newly born, who bawled the place down night and day. She was born rich, in the back of her gran's barrel top wagon, and her family thrived until their firm crashed into bankruptcy and became poor.

After reading the whole series I wasn’t sure what to expect with this- perhaps just a summing up or similar- but I was very pleasantly surprised as I really enjoyed the whole thing! Two years between each of them, and although Queenie was skint for a great part of the time – the war was not long over and there was still rationing – she made sure her boys wanted for little. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.The narrator was great and much as I love Annie Aldington I found listening to this story told by someone with a softer accent was much easier on the ears! Boxing or crime – those were the only ways out of penury on the dirt-poor streets of the post-war East End, so Max decided that crime it was going to have to be. I give this novel 5 stars and you deserve more I would also recommend this book to friends and family well done jessie keane. He’s so bloody scrawny, he’ll get knocked to fuck,’ said his dad, laughing, relishing the idea of the pushy little sod getting a pasting. The only man – ever – who could make a purring pussycat out of the snarling tigress she knew herself to be.