Genevra
When Genevra Kerslake's profligate father died she had to sell the family store to wealthy department store magnate, Matthew Pyrritt. Her cousin Leonara despised men of his class, but Genevra found him attractive. When Leonara's drunken husband attacked Genevra, she decided to accept the job of a shopgirl offered by Pyrritt. And so a sheltered Surrey gentlewoman was thrust into the hurly-burly world of the West End. Times were changing in Edwardian England an Genevra was determined to adapt to whatever challenges fate put in her way....