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In 1851 Lydia Mohun, the daughter of the famous actress, Lilith Lucas, comes to live in Soho Square. She dreams of the same success on the same stage and when Jonah Lackland's daughter Phoebe is introduced to Lydia, an exciting and glittering world is opened up to her. Freddy, her cousin feels very protective towards her and fears that Lydia poses a threat. Jonah, now widowed, anticipates an inevitable tragedy for them all.

In the fourth volume in The Performers family saga, it is 1851: the year of the Great Exhibition and Paxton's Crystal Palace. Lydia Mohun, daughter of Lilith, former star of the Haymarket Theatre, arrives to take up residence in Soho Square. Abel's son Jonah, now a widower, is convinced she spells trouble. To his daughter Phoebe, brought up by Aunt Abbey, the introduction to Lydia opened a new world of delight. But for Abby's son Freddy,it set a formidable stumbling block in the path he had planned for his beloved Phoebe. Before the end of that summer of 1851, Freddy and Phoebe were to see both happiness and misery.

In 1851 Lydia Mohun, the daughter of the famous actress, Lilith Lucas, comes to live in Soho Square. She dreams of the same success on the same stage and when Jonah Lackland's daughter Phoebe is introduced to Lydia, an exciting and glittering world is opened up to her. Freddy, her cousin feels very protective towards her and fears that Lydia poses a threat. Jonah, now widowed, anticipates an inevitable tragedy for them all.