A good read.

At first I thought it was a soppy story about girls working in a sugar factory in the east end of London, but as I got into it, I realised that the authors had worked a fair bit of social history painlessly into the story. The four main protagonists are real people, and the details of their late 40s/early 50s life and employment at Tate and Lyle fascinating. Some things not so good, of course, unmarried girls who got pregnant were expected to give up their babies for adoption.

Did you know the founder of Tate's in 1877, Henry Tate,  and Abram Lyle, founder of Lyle's in 1881, never met? The firms kept strictly apart, Tate's with their sugar cubes, and Lyle with the golden syrup, until 1921 when the merger took place.