Melody for Lizzie

elizabeth belmont has grown up in edwardian London dreaming of becoming a star on the music hall stage, where her father is a musician. but when disaster strikes, her widowed father has to send her to stay with her mother’s starchy family in the north. against all odds she finally realises her ambition, becoming a musical artiste. it is an era of change, with women fighting for the vote, but still bound by convention and strict class values. even as she rises up the bill, she is torn between the world of middle-class respectability and the free life of the theatre. spurned by the man she loves, she is drawn into the clutches of a man she detests. Can elizabeth break free and find the love and happiness she yearns for?