Book description
When nine-year-old orphan Georgia James is unexpectedly fostered by
the kindly Celia and her bank manager husband she can hardly believe
her luck. But then - on her fifteenth birthday - she suffers the
cruellest betrayal of all at the hands of her foster father and is
forced to run away, leaving everything she loves behind her.
Penniless, sleeping rough, Georgia is soon introduced to the sleazy
Soho world of brassy strippers, sweat shops, camaraderie and hardship.
Fired by a fierce ambition, blessed with an extraordinary voice, her
long struggle for fame and fortune begins. But even when she reaches
the top she finds that the scars of the past can open up to ruin
her...
Steeped in atmosphere and raw emotion, Georgia is the story
of a determination to succeed against all the odds and of a burning
first love.
Lesley Pearse was born in Rochester, Kent, but has lived in the West
Country for over thirty years. She has three daughters and two
grandsons. She is the author of twenty novels and now writes full-time.
Like her heroine Georgia she spent some years in an orphanage, and she
learned about the Soho club scene and the music business during the
Sixties with the late John Pritchard.
