Fortune's Daughter: An emotional and thrilling saga of love and loss

by Benita Brown (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $5.61

  Daisy Belle, a gifted singer from the Tyneside backstreets, is devastated when her baby daughter Rose goes missing. Little does she know Rose has been stolen and given to a wealthy woman who, tricked into believing she's an orphan, adopts her and renames her Rosina. Worse still, it was all arranged by Daisy's ruthlessly ambitious agent, Jack Fidler. Years later, when tragedy strikes, Rosina runs away to join a theatrical troupe and her natural talent for singing wins the hearts of the crowds. But this brings her into direct competition with one of the northern music halls' established stars, Daisy Belle - and back into the path of Jack, who is determined to destroy her...

• Used

  Hardcover
  2006

  $3.25

  Daisy-Belle, a talented young singer from the grim backstreets of Tyneside, has the potential to go far. And would-be impresario, Jack Fidler, instantly sees her promise. There's only one thing holding her back in Jack's eyes: her illegitimate daughter, Dolly. Ruthlessly ambitious, Jack arranges for the child to be 'stolen' by his sister, Maud, a maid in a wealthy Northumberland household. And so Dolly, renamed Rosina, is brought up by Maud's kind-hearted mistress, Geraldine Leighton. But when Geraldine tragically dies in childbirth, Maud lets slip to Rosina that she has no true blood ties to the family, and, with dreams of finding her real mother, Rosina leaves for good. She is taken in by a small theatrical troupe and her natural talent soon comes to the fore. But as her fame grows, she is brought into direct competition with one of the northern music halls' established stars, Daisy-Belle, who, unaware of her young rival's true identity, determines to destroy her...

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $12.29

  Daisy Belle, a gifted singer from the Tyneside backstreets, is devastated when her baby daughter Rose goes missing. Little does she know Rose has been stolen and given to a wealthy woman who, tricked into believing she's an orphan, adopts her and renames her Rosina. Worse still, it was all arranged by Daisy's ruthlessly ambitious agent, Jack Fidler. Years later, when tragedy strikes, Rosina runs away to join a theatrical troupe and her natural talent for singing wins the hearts of the crowds. But this brings her into direct competition with one of the northern music halls' established stars, Daisy Belle - and back into the path of Jack, who is determined to destroy her...