The novel recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, a Child growing up in the "Old Jago", a fictionalisation of the Old Nichol, a slum in the East End of London..
The novel recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, a Child growing up in the "Old Jago", a fictionalisation of the Old Nichol, a slum in the East End of London.