A story about a spy, a love story, and a hard look at what happens when people become old and need care. Mrs Rosen is an elderly, disabled widow who depends on help from friends and neighbours, her three grown-up children, and social services. But Mrs Rosen is also a fit and capable younger woman transferred from codebreaking at Bletchley and trained for a solo mission into wartime Germany. This defines the rest of her life, a life spent in Cold War secret intelligence, a life about which her chidren and carers know nothing.
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I'm the author of more than forty travel guides for major publishers, and six novels - Bella's Wish (2026); On Romford Road (2025); The J-Word (2009, 2011, 2018); The Slave (2013); Love (2015); and The Unknown Mrs Rosen (2020).
Bella's Wish is about an 80-year-old woman who disappears and cannot be contacted. Her oldest friend goes searching, breaks into her home in a remote village in the south of France and learns more about his old friend Bella than he ever bargained for. https://www.andrewsanger.com/bellas-wish
On Romford Road follows the destinies of two tough-minded East London families as they climb from poverty to prosperity. One chooses the path of crime and corruption, the other toil and education. But fate has bound them together. A tale of revenge and rivalry, a family saga set against the story of the 20th century in London. https://www.andrewsanger.com/on-romford-road
The Unknown Mrs Rosen, published 2020, is about a former spy at the end of a secret life about which her family and carers know nothing. https://www.andrewsanger.com/the-unknown-mrs-rosen. The J-Word, about an elderly man who seeks justice in his own way after being attacked by an antisemitic gang, was published in the UK in 2009 by Snowbooks, and came out in a Kindle edition in 2011. A new edition was published in 2018. Featured at London's Jewish Book Week and the Hampstead & Highgate Literary Festival. For more about The J-Word see https://www.andrewsanger.com/the-j-word The Slave, about a young 'client' who tries to free a woman from forced prostitution, was published in 2013 at Smashwords as an ebook for multiple platforms, and is also available as a paperback. https://www.andrewsanger.com/the-slave Love is a story of heartbreak on the hippie trail, set in the heady atmosphere of the late Sixties. https://www.andrewsanger.com/love To read about my novels and see what reviewers thought of them, see https://www.andrewsanger.com