SYNOPSIS Nancy Carson’s third novel about the Kite family of Dudley is set in a colourful world of beautiful music, as the youngest of the Kite girls is whisked from between-wars Birmingham and the industrial Black Country of 1936, to the dazzling, abrasive culture of New York and Chicago. Maxine - the talented musician of the Kite family - is overjoyed to land a job as cellist with the City of Birmingham Orchestra. But Brent Shackleton, an intriguing fellow musician, introduces Maxine to the world of jazz. Soon, she is the star of his band, playing piano and singing. She loves this hectic new life and the glamour that surrounds it, and even finds time to fall in love with Howard Quaintance. With Howard she discovers that she is not the cold fish her old boyfriend Stephen always said she was and Maxine has never been so happy - yet their lives couldn't be more different. When the jazz clubs of New York beckon, along with the sultry world of wayward musician Brent Shackleton, Maxine leaves safety and propriety behind. But a girl’s good name can be all she has in the world - and once lost, is almost impossible, to reclaim . . . As romantic and engaging as the songs Maxine sings.

Rags to Riches

The glittering third part of the trilogy about the Kite family, that whisks the reader in style across the Atlantic with Maxine Kite, exploring the spectacular glamour and contrasting hardship of Depression-hit New York and Chicago in the 1930's. An emotional story of exhilaration, deceit and with many, many surprises.

SERIES INFORMATION The Dressmaker’s Daughter introduces the Kite Family and is the first in the trilogy. The Factory Girl is the second novel in the trilogy about the Kite family. Rags to Riches is the third novel in the series.