Rosie Hogarth - Softcover

In the spring of 1949, Jack Agass belatedly returns from the war to the street in Islington where he grew up. A proud, supportive community - with a pub and a barber shop, and a common love of The Arsenal. But the street has changed. Jack eventually finds his footing but he's haunted by a yearning for his old childhood friend Rosie Hogarth, and for the pre-war security and certainties she represents. Rosie has moved out and up - living bohemian-style in Bloomsbury. He things she's selling sex, but is he right?

Alexander Baron was a major writer of the twentieth century. His 'From the City, From the Plough' (1948) sold over a million copies and has been acknowledged as one of the greatest works of the Second World War.