Shirley and her younger Sister Carole were Eight and Seven, when their wayward seafaring Father abandoned them, leaving them homeless and practically destitute.They spent the following years like Nomads, their Mother constantly out after her days work, looking for some where for them to live. After living in many nook and cranny in Dagenham, they settled, again, in One room with their Maternal Grandmother, and Mothers Siblings. Life was never easy, and her young Sister suffered badly, withdrawing into herself.Shirley however put her own spin on life, and made you very aware of her presence, in what was sometimes a pretty harsh life. She was Fourteen Years and Ten months old when she fell hopelessly in love with her Teddy Boy boyfriend. One year later and with her future mapped out, she was arrested, for having underage sex. This first volume of her Trilogy, tells you of her journey, from childhood, to her incarceration as a teenager, by the Juvenile Courts.