RAGGED ROSE

Rose and her naïve sister Cora lead a double life. By day they are dutiful daughters, carrying out parish duties for their father, the vicar of St Marks, but by night they are performers in a sleazy East End Music Hall, earning money to pay for the defence of their wayward brother, wrongly accused of murder...

East End of London, 1875 - Rose Perkins will do anything to keep her beloved brother Billy from the gallows, even if it means risking her family's reputation by treading the boards in a seedy East End music hall. And her naïve sister Cora is on a different road to ruin; on the verge of losing her virtue to a handsome rogue whose intentions are anything but honourable. Despite her struggle to hold everything together, Rose is unable to stop the tide turning against them when their secret life is brought to the surface. They find themselves destitute and cast out into the danger of London's blackest streets. Now, with her sister facing a shameful scandal and her brother's life hanging in the balance, Rose must risk everything to to save them.

Dilly Court is a Sunday Times bestselling author of 28 novels. She grew up in North East London and began her career in television, writing scripts for commercials. She is married with two grown-up children and four grandchildren, and now lives in Dorset on the beautiful Jurassic Coast with her husband.
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