Isobel Brite
About
Meet Isobel Brite,a shoemaker’s daughter turned actress. Strong-willed, selfish and naive, she finds that life on the stage in the 1830s is far more challenging than she could ever believe, not least because the attentions of the dashing lead actor, Frank Douglas, lead to some difficult choices.
As she makes her way through the fluctuating fortunes of life on the stage, she will make some good friends, and meet some interesting characters, including a certain Charles Dickens. But her choices do not always lead her in the right direction, and the thread between fortune and poverty is very narrow...
Praise for this book
I spent all day yesterday curled up on the sofa with this book and didn’t want to put it down