Publisher's Synopsis
Poppy Mazzini, born in Hull over her father's grocery shop, with fiery red hair, a lovely singing voice and Italian ancestry, has always wanted to go on the stage and see her name at the top of the bill. She realizes her ambition and becomes a music hall star, and is invited to sing in Paris, but when her childhood love becomes engaged to someone else Poppy is devastated. She disappears in despair, but her best friend, a composer and pianist, sends messages and words of love through his music, which gradually help her to overcome her misery.