gower street

by Claire Rayner

Book Overview

The early 1800's. Jesse Constam, a highly respected spice merchant, lives in fashionable Gower Street. Saved from poverty himself, he rescues two children from the gutter. Jesse's intervention changes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000GM65T2
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Historical Novel...

historical set against the sprawling London of the early years of the last century, Gower Street magnificently re-creates the turbulent life of the theater and the medical world of the time as it follows the careers of two ambitious "guttersnipes" who seek to make their fortune: Abel Lackland whose foray into body snatching awakens him to an interest in the sinister new art of surgery, and Lilith Lucas, born Lil Burnell, who will let nothing stand in the way of her rising to be queen of the English stage. ...some mystery and some romance in this one. The first novel in "The Performers" series.