Paddington Green - The Performers

Claire Rayner

Corgi

1976

317 páginas

10h 34m

ISBN-1: 0

The children of Abel Lackland were grown up, and making their way in the world in the early years of Queen Victoria's reign. William and Rupert had followed their father into the medical profession; Jonah, married to the daughter of the bewitching Lilith Lucas, was watching his early dreams of theatrical success dwindle in the face of providing for wife and children; Abby, now widowed, was a successful business-woman, running the medecine manufacturing firm set up by her husband.
For Abby,no man could replace her beloved James, and when her affections were aroused by Gideon Henriques, the Jewish accountant who managed her financial affairs, she felt the situation to be doubly impossible between them stood not only James' memory, but also religion - Even though Gideon woulf fight anything for her sake, including his parents and his own faith. Then suddenly, into the lives of abel an his family came something that overshadowed all their private crisis, setting one against another yet uniting them in common need.

Paddington Green is the third novel in Claire Rayner's sequence entitled The Performers in which she traces the storm-tossed fortunes of two families from the beginning of the nineteenth century into the twentieth.