Table of Contents

1. Welcome to London
2. The Beginning
3. On the Map
4. Our House
5. House Mates
6. Local Heroes
7. Celebrations
8. Liquid Gold
9. Chief Mouser
10. Flying the Flag
11. Kids in the City
12. Family Restaurants
13. The Glory
14. Down the Aisle
15. Pratt Street
16. The Beautiful Game
17. Pocket Money
18. The Doctor and the Dentist
19. Language and Learning
20. High School
21. Rag Trade Friends
22. Family Holidays
23. Jo's Flight
24. Back to Roots
25. Anglo Akanthou Aid Society
26. Greeks on Film
27. Oxford Street and Beyond
28. The Food of Love
29. Career Girl
30. The F Word
31. And in the End
32. Acknowledgements

About the Author

Helen Evangelou was born and raised in London’s West End. During her career in publishing and TV news she has worked for organisations such as Independent Television News (ITN), The Associated Press and Al Jazeera English. Helen has travelled extensively, spending time in Australia and in Cyprus, where she set up ITN’S Nicosia bureau during the Middle Eastern hostage crisis in the late 1980s. She now lives in Suffolk. This book is a tribute to her Greek Cypriot parents, who lived and worked in central London but whose dreams always took them back to Cyprus.