Lesley Pearse

When nine-year-old orphan Georgia James is unexpectedly fostered by the kindly Celia and her bank manager husband, she can hardly believe her luck. But then on her fifteenth birthday, she suffers the cruelest betrayal of all, at the hands of her foster father, and is forced to run away, leaving everything she loves behind her. Penniless, sleeping rough, Georgia is soon introduced to the sleazy Soho world of brassy strippers, sweatshops, camaraderie,...