Spirited and beautiful Annie Flanagan’s reckless ambition takes her from the Hackney watercress beds to dancing at the Folies-Bergère in Paris. When she returns she work in an establishment catering to the desires of wealthy gentlemen.
When she disappears, leaving her illegitimate son behind, her friend Hettie Bundy sets out to find her. Secrets are revealed and lives put in danger.
Kay is a lover of books, history and London, together or separate. She has written three Victorian novels, The Water Gypsy, The Watercress Girls and The Guardian Angel, which have been compared to books by Catherine Cookson and Barbara Bradford Taylor. Two of her books have been chosen as finalists for The Wishing Shelf Award. Kay writes about the poverty, prejudice and social injustice prevalent in Victorian England and the huge gap between the immensely wealthy and the grindingly poor, but not in such a way as to spoil a great story. She also writes short stories for women’s...