Publisher's Synopsis
Harriet, abandoned as a child in 19th century East End London, was forced to scavenge for her food until Mary Dean found her and took her to a smart house in Bow where she was brought up as a sister to Mary and her younger brother Arthur. Seventeen years later, Harriet and Arthur fall in love but are driven out of Bow by neighbours calling them heathens when Harriet falls pregnant. Eking out a meagre but free existence in rented rooms in Stepney, they are happy - until Arthur, railway deliveryman, is caught pilfering and faces a prison sentence. But this is the least of their worries...Harriet has kept a diary that she stole as a child, the diary of the perpetrator of the Whitechapel killings. The Jack the Ripper murders. And now its owner has returned to the East End in search of Harriet and the diary... "She brings the East End to life" BARBARA WINDSOR
