London's Heart: A Novel

Set in Soho's crowded streets and music-halls, the novel follows several intersecting households as a suave opportunist engineers financial schemes and social manipulations that threaten the security and reputations of modest people. Episodes trace gambling and a protected swindle, domestic anxieties, courtly manoeuvres, and romantic attachments involving Felix, Lily, and their neighbours, while friends and opponents deploy cunning, conscience, and legal measures. Tension builds through revelations, reversals, and crises until strategic countermoves and moral choices bring reckonings that determine livelihoods and relationships.