Queen of the Rising Sun: From Landlady of an East End Pub to Essex Nan

Life for East End families like Pat's was always a struggle. She worked for years in Tate & Lyle's sugar factory while her husband Charlie took on two jobs so their growing family could survive. Until one day Charlie came home with a brilliant idea - they should take over The Rising Sun pub in Bromley-by-Bow.

In this charming memoir Pat describes her years as a pub landlady, where she cut a distinctive figure with her famous red beehive. Vividly evoking the East End community she served in the 1960s, Pat captures the colourful characters she encountered and the changes that swept through society that time. She also reveals why she and Charlie finally moved to Essex, and what it felt like to become one of the stars of The Only Way is Essex in her seventies!