Bent as a two bob watch

I had a great trip to Ireland and I got a chance to catch up on some reading so I can finally do a book review after skipping the last couple weeks. Lucy got me the book "Not All Tarts Are Apples" by Pip Granger for Christmas which I read on the plane (and the during the bus ride from Dublin to Clonmel). The book is about an little girl Rosie during 1953 London living with her aunt and uncle above there cafe. Rosie learns that a local "tart" is actually her mother when the owners of the cafe (who are not related to her) want to adopt her. But the family of her mother has some plans for Rosie which may require involvement by all her adopted family to make sure that Rosie is happy. I thought this book was very charming and full of interesting 1950s London slang (which I really want to incorporate into my lexicon!). And it really explored the idea of a non-traditional family in that most of Rosie family was not directly related to her, but lived in her building, were regular customers at the cafe, or people in the neighborhood that cared for her. There is a sequel (and 2 prequels) for this novel, but since Pip Granger is a British author, the paperback is not available through Paperspine yet, so I will have to wait for the prequels to be in paperback form.