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Pip Granger's fiction is set in Soho, primarily in the 1950s. A number of characters appear in multiple of the inter-twined books, each of which can be read on its own.
2 Pip Granger quizzes and 20 Pip Granger trivia questions.
1.
  Not All Tarts Are Apple    
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This is the first of Pip Granger's "Rosie" books, set in Soho in the 1950s.
Difficult, 10 Qns, Rowena8482, Feb 11 17
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  The Widow Ginger    
Multiple Choice
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"The Widow Ginger" is the second of Pip Granger's "Rosie" books, set in Soho in the 1950s.
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Pip Granger Trivia Questions
1. What does the 'Widow' bit of Widow Ginger mean?

From Quiz The Widow Ginger

Answer: He's American

Widow Ginger's nickname comes from Cockney rhyming slang - Widow Twanky = Yankee, because he's American, and Ginger Beer = Queer because he is a homosexual. Paulette explains it to Rosie as "he's queer, well you have to admit love, he is a very strange man" as Rosie is just nine years old.

2. Rosie lives in Soho, London, with her beloved Aunty Maggie and Uncle Bert. What sort of business do they run?

From Quiz Not All Tarts Are Apple

Answer: Cafe

The books are set in the 1950s with a cast of characters as colourful as the Soho area in which they live. Maggie and Bert's cafe is always busy and Rosie often 'helps' even though she is only allowed to carry cold drinks and things that won't spill easily!

3. Who runs the drinking club where Sugar Plum works?

From Quiz The Widow Ginger

Answer: Bandy Bunyan

Bandy's club has a waiting list for membership, and Uncle Bert says it's because people "queue up to be insulted by her". Bandy is famous for her sarcastic sharp tongue and her capacity for gin.

4. Where is Great Aunt Dodie when the opening events of "Widow Ginger" take place?

From Quiz The Widow Ginger

Answer: Terrorising the natives in Kathmandu

Great Aunt Dodie is one of Rosie's favourite people in all the world. She is a true "English eccentric" and does exactly as she pleases, when she pleases, with no regard for anyone's opinion. She hates the English winter so often goes travelling to avoid it. This time she comes home at Easter.

5. Who is the lawyer who lives next door to Rosie?

From Quiz Not All Tarts Are Apple

Answer: Sharkey Finn

Uncle Bert always says that Sharkey could "hide behind a corkscrew" but he is a good friend to Rosie and her family when they need legal advice.

6. Who is Rosie's friend who dies?

From Quiz The Widow Ginger

Answer: Jenny

Jenny is very ill, and eventually dies. Rosie is too young to have realised just how ill, but she gradually comes to see how serious her condition is. It is only after Jenny's funeral that it really hits Rosie that her friend is truly gone.

7. Paulette is a great friend of Rosie's. When we first meet her, she is working as a prostitute, but she gets a 'real job' and leaves the seedy life behind her. Where does she go to work?

From Quiz Not All Tarts Are Apple

Answer: Lyon's Corner House

Sharkey, Maggie and Bert help to 'see off' Paulette's pimp and this gives her a chance to get her life back together. She gets a job in the Lyon's Corner House at Marble Arch and never looks back.

8. The very first time Rosie comes face to face with the Widow, she does something to upset him. What is it?

From Quiz The Widow Ginger

Answer: Stands on his foot and dirties his shoe

The Widow is lurking about and follows Rosie and Uncle Bert home. As Rosie runs round the corner, she stands on his foot and scuffs his shoe. The Widow grabs Rosie and glares at her whilst telling her to "clean it NOW" and she is truly terrified.

9. When Paulette and Madame Zelda redecorate, what theme do they give their living room?

From Quiz Not All Tarts Are Apple

Answer: Jungle

They decorate the room as a jungle, complete with vines, stuffed animals, and murals on the walls. Rosie is delighted to be allowed to help them with the decorating.

10. What is the only thing anyone has ever known the Widow to be afraid of?

From Quiz The Widow Ginger

Answer: Nuns

The Widow is terrified of nuns. Nobody ever finds out why, but Uncle Bert remembers once when some nuns were collecting for charity and the Widow went "white as a sheet," and gave them a large sum of money before practically running away.

11. Who is the local 'mobster' who runs all the crime and clubs in the area? He is an old friend of Uncle Berts.

From Quiz Not All Tarts Are Apple

Answer: Maltese Joe

Maltese Joe and Uncle Bert have been friends for years. It was Joe who kept the cafe supplied with food during the war when rationing made life hard.

12. When Betty Potts gets a job as a hostess in a club, what does the boss change her name to?

From Quiz The Widow Ginger

Answer: Chinchilla O'Reardon

Maltese Joe has a crush on Betty, but she resists his advances gracefully. He gives her a job at his club and calls her Chinchilla O'Reardon. Chinchilla is because fur coats are very expensive and Betty refuses to accept one as a gift from him, and O'Reardon because he says she has a very fine rear!

13. Rosie meets her aristocratic Great Aunt Dodie for the first time when she is on holiday at Weston Super Mare. What car does Dodie drive?

From Quiz Not All Tarts Are Apple

Answer: Lagonda

Great Aunt Dodie is eccentric and Rosie loves her. She drives a convertible silver Lagonda very fast, and does exactly as she pleases most of the time.

14. What signal do Rosie and her friend arrange to mean "Danger"?

From Quiz The Widow Ginger

Answer: A red scarf in the window

When Jenny is bedridden, she and Rosie arrange a series of signals so they can "talk" to each other as Rosie passes the window on her way to and from school. When the Widow takes Jenny's mum hostage later on, she remembers the girls signals and hangs the red scarf in the window. Rosie sees it, tells TC the policeman what it means, and he arranges help for Jenny's mum.

15. Madame Zelda's ex-husband turns up to cause trouble for Rosie and her Aunt and Uncle. What is his name?

From Quiz Not All Tarts Are Apple

Answer: Charlie Fluck

Charlie is employed by 'vile Godfrey' to try and blackmail Cassandra into signing over her shares. Cassandra laughs in his face and tells him she doesn't care who knows about Rosie so to go ahead and tell whom he likes.

16. Which musical instrument does Rosie take lessons on?

From Quiz The Widow Ginger

Answer: Cello

Mr. Rabinowitz is an excellent violinist and has been secretly teaching Maltese Joe to play too. He gives Rosie some lessons on a child size cello, and when she sticks with her practising, Maltese Joe buys the cello for her birthday and pays for her lessons.

17. Rosie's step-grandfather is a wicked man who has Rosie kidnapped. What is his name?

From Quiz Not All Tarts Are Apple

Answer: Godfrey

"Vile Godfrey" as Aunt Dodie calls him is a right rotter. He wants to force Cassandra to hand over her shares in the family business, so he has Rosie kidnapped. When the kidnapping case comes to court, Godfrey claims to be Rosie's birth father, but he forgot to check the vital fact of her date of birth! He ends up being sent to jail.

18. When the Widow is finally knocked out as he tries to kill Rosie, what does Mr. Rabinowitz shout as he hits him?

From Quiz The Widow Ginger

Answer: Not the children! Not Again!

When the Widow set Maltese Joe's club on fire, Mr. Rabinowitz had to be rescued as his flat was in the same building. He is an elderly Jewish man who fled the Russian Revolution and the fire reminded him of the pogroms and distressed him deeply. When he sees the Widow threatening Rosie he has a sort of flashback and snaps, and even though he is a frail old man, he hits the Widow over the head and knocks him out.

19. Who is widely believed to be Rosie's birth father?

From Quiz Not All Tarts Are Apple

Answer: TC

"Everyone knows" that Rosie's dad is actually TC, the local neighbourhood policeman, but nobody actually says so. TC is married and his wife is ill, so people just quietly ignore Rosie's parentage, although TC watches out for her as much as he can.

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