A GRIPPING AND ULTIMATELY UPLIFTING SAGA SET IN TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY LONDON FROM A WONDERFUL NEW TALENT ...

Born into poverty and living under the roof of her violent and abusive brother-in-law, young Kitty Cox dreams of working in a women?s dress shop in the West End ? a million miles away from the reality of her life as a mud-lark, scavenging on the banks of the Thames.

Fate soon intervenes and Kitty finds herself working as a skivvy for Sir Desmond and Lady Arabella Mableton in Mayfair.Bullied by the kitchen maids, Kitty is soon taken under Lady Arabella?s wing and for the first time in her life Kitty dares to hope.

But Lady ?Bella? has a secret and unable to live with her domineering husband she decides to leave, fighting for custody of their daughter, Leonie.Kitty will do anything for her mistress but her loyalty is severely tested as all their lives are thrown into turmoil and Kitty faces a life of poverty and hardship in the slums of the East End once more ...

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Born into poverty and living under the roof of her violent and abusive brother-in-law, young Kitty Cox dreams of working in a women?s dress shop in the West End ? a million miles away from the reality of her life as a mud-lark, scavenging on the banks of the Thames.

Fate soon intervenes and Kitty finds herself working as a skivvy for Sir Desmond and Lady Arabella Mableton in Mayfair.Bullied by the kitchen maids, Kitty is soon taken under Lady Arabella?s wing and for the first time in her life Kitty dares to hope.

But Lady ?Bella? has a secret and unable to live with her domineering husband she decides to leave, fighting for custody of their daughter, Leonie.Kitty will do anything for her mistress but her loyalty is severely tested as all their lives are thrown into turmoil and Kitty faces a life of poverty and hardship in the slums of the East End once more ...

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DILLY COURT:
Dilly Court grew up in North East London and began her career in commercial television, writing scripts for commercials. She is married with two grown up children, and now lives in Dorset on the beautiful Jurassic Coast with her husband and large, yellow Labrador. Mermaids Singing is her first novel.

2006-02-11 Dilly triumphs again

Kitty Cox's world turns upside down when she is raped by her brother in law, her older sister Maggie sends her away so he doesnt do it again. A neighbour takes her in and finds her a post in the kichen of a large house, but she is bullied by two housemaids daily, a chance meeting with the lady of the house sees her taken above stairs as the nanny, the master of the house is a bully to his wife, who only married him for security, she falls in love with his son and ends up having to leave the house and go back to the halls where she used to sing living with kitty in her neighbours house.......there is so much to fit in and not enough space....someone different happends to each of them every chapter, which makes compelling reading, try and see you will NOT be disappointed