Dilly Court

Dilly Court grew up in North East London and worked as an advertising copywriter for commercial television. She is married with two grown-up children and lives in Dorset on the beautiful Jurassic Coast with her husband and large yellow Labrador.

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Titles: Mermaids Singing,The Dollmaker's Daughters, Tilly True, The Best of Sisters, The Cockney Sparrow, The Constant Heart, A Mother's Promise, The Cockney Angel (Random House)

The Cockney Angel

Eighteen-year-old Irene Angel lives with her parents in a tiny room above the shop where her crippled mother ekes out a living selling pickles and sauces, whilst her charming but feckless father Billy gambles away what little money they do manage to earn. And it is all Irene can do to keep the family together. Billy's addiction soon leads him into trouble. Despite having been brought up by her father to fear and distrust the police, Irene finds herself forced to collaborate with them to save her father from ruin. But Billy's errant ways finally catch up with him and he is imprisoned in Newgate jail. With her mother away from home, a desperate Irene has little choice but to seek help from Inspector Edward Kent - her sworn enemy. For only she can clear her father's name and unite the family once more...

Thank you, Hilary, for your encouragement and invaluable advice. Your laser-like mind has the ability to go to the heart of the matter, spotting an aspiring writer’s good points as well as the bad. . . I learned more from you than all the books on How To Write.

Dilly Court