Borstal Girl

Born into a fog-ridden south London slum in 1931, Eileen Killick quickly learned to look after herself. Her brothers were wayward, her mum had TB and her dad was working all hours on the railways. By the time she was fourteen she had survived the Blitz, a spell in a care home and her mother''s death, but she craved excitement, embarking on shoplifting sprees, liberating fur coats and rolling toffs...