Gower Street - Performers, Bk 1 Author:Claire Rayner Jesse Constam, a highly respected spice merchant, lives in fashionable Gower Street in the early 1800s. Saved from poverty himself, he rescues two children from the gutter. Jesse's intervention changes their lives forever. The fate of Abel Lackland and Lilith Lucas and their families become inextricably entwined as they are destined fo... more »r the vastly different worlds of medicine and the theater. This is a story of grinding poverty, staggering wealth, life, love and class conflict. « less