Finding Words in Whitechapel and other stories explore lives in England, France and the United States. Men, women and children experience love, passion, failure and wonder, as they follow different paths to become their unique selves.
Among the twenty stories in Finding Words in Whitechapel, is one concerning a future poet, Isaac Rosenberg.. In their East End flat, the Rosenberg family live in poverty. Isaac, 13, sleeps on a straw pallet. To earn money, he must share his small room, the floor space, with new immigrant Abou Saleem. A Jazzy Night in Old New York sings of Fifty Second Street in 1950, the jazz centre of the world. When eighteen-year-old Laura is invited to hear the great Sarah Vaughan sing, she experiences not only great music... Highbury Fields. Recently dumped by her husband, can Sally save her Highbury family home by finding proof that her ex is lying about being jobless? The Death Hat. Mrs Lovejoy waits at the bus stop for an old man to be her first New Hampshire summer visitor. Instead it is a young man, Arlo, who turns up - his face scarred by cold burns. The Roofer. Professor Andrew Harris and his wife return to their French cottage for a holiday. They watch the roofer place a weather cock on the 20 metre high church steeple. The experience alters all of their lives.
