Dock worker’s houses had fitted carpets, TVs and the latest radiograms – and every so often a crate of goods got damaged by being dropped onto the concrete unloading bay – usually deliberately – and so there was always a surfeit of marketable stuff to sell.

She wasn’t in love – she was getting a bit too long in the tooth for that stuff – but there was a powerful physical pull from Clive, like magnetism. Should we receive only part of your trade-in, we will cancel items that have not been received, and process the items we have received.Reluctantly she heads back to London for an uncomfortable reunion with Max, soon followed by their troubled daughter Layla. For a long while, the three boys thought their mum might even be one of those peculiar vegetarian types, because they had meat to eat, but she never touched it. Drunk or sober, Connie would always take one look at Annie, see her missing husband staring back at her, and hit the roof. Dad would say, hoisting himself out of his chair long enough to raise a threatening hand to his eldest.

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! But then a summons to Majorca and a tragic death makes Max question all that has happened to him over many years.You could only do so many sudden little jobs like that, then sooner or later the Bill were going to be aware and then they’d grab you and there’d be a three-person cell in Wandsworth with your name on it.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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). By aged 15, he’s alone, unloved and determined to take revenge on Max, whom he sees as author of all his misfortunes. And finally, miraculously, I found my writing voice and Annie Bailey sauntered into my head and stopped there.He didn’t like the punters down the pub eyeing up his mother, flirting with her, the lairy bastards.