JESSIE: from the author of best selling A boy from Primrose Hill

Jessie is a Jewish girl born in London's east end in 1905, her father Ruby a Russian immigrant, becomes a big star of the Music Hall. Jessie is befriended by Marie Lloyd the Queen of the Genre. She transforms from a cockney tyke into a leading lady of the london stage, Eventually her fame takes her to Hollywood and Broadway.She has a turbulent love life and a busy social life amongst the creme de la creme of the Riviera set. She becomes friends with Winston Churchill and survives two world ...