When Kate Flannagan's husband is sentenced to seven years for armed robbery, she knows that now is the time to be free of him and make a new start for herself and her two children. Forced to quit her house because of rent arrears, Kate takes the unpalatable step of moving to a slum tenement block in Mildyke Street, Dockhead. It's a street with no corner shops and no familiar terraced houses- just a bleak turning with a reputation for housing the dregs of Bermondsey. Yet people are people wherever they live, and Kate soon settles in among the Mildykers, sharing their gossip, heartaches and laughter. Down Mildyke Way is a poigant, moving tale of community and spirit. No Matter how hard times are, and in the East End they're never easy, if you can laugh together, suddenly life doesn't seem quite so bad. Warm praise for Harry Bowling's novels: 'What makes Harry's novels work is their warmth and autheticity.Their spirit comes from the author himself and his abiding memories of family life as it was once lived in the slums of south-east London'