Carole Matthews is one of the bestselling women's fiction writers around. Romance & Sagas
Synopsis
The son of a Sheffield miner, Max Bentley wants to earn his living as a musician in a dance band in London. Young Tess Trent works at Emerson's department store in London's West End, its affluence a far remove from her respectable home in Hammersmith.Meeting at a Saturday night dance, Tess and Max are instantly attracted, soon discovering they share the same dreams. But Max's ambitions drive them apart.
Betrayed by the man she loves, Tess tries to find fulfilment in marriage and her successful fineware shop. Then Tess's nineteen-year-old daughter Judy meets and falls in love with a musician: it is Max Bentley.
Star Quality is a saga of love, conflict and ambition set against a changing London from the Great Depression of the thirties to the reckless sixties.
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