Gwen Sweetingham

Gwen Sweetingham was born in Ilford Essex in 1944, lost her mother at five years old, and from a broken family, was raised to adulthood by her mother's six sisters, all of whose different lives and vibrantly contrasting personalities became hers to share. Their stories together are told in this book. After successful careers in nursing and women's fashion, she later married and turned her hand to property restoration in East Anglia. A life-long jazz lover, she is married to trumpeter, Digby Fairweather. This is her first book.