Beautiful For Ever Madame Rachel of Bond Street - Cosmetician, Co

Madame Rachel had everything: a Mayfair address, the title of 'purveyor to Her Majesty the Queen', a shop full of exotic and expensive creams and potions. Her clientele were aristocratic, rich, well-connected - and gullible. She began life as a poor fish fryer in a disease-ridden, grubby corner of Victorian London. Via teeming markets, filthy prisons and high society drawing rooms, she climbed her way to a shop in New Bond Street, where her wealthy clients came in their droves, lured by the promise of eternal beauty. What they found there was a con-woman and fraudster who made a career out of lies, treachery and the false hopes of her desperate victims. This is the true story of Madame Rachel who offered her customers reinvention, transformation and the chance to be Beautiful For Ever. It's a thrilling tale of love affairs, scandal, blackmail, high-profile court cases, suicide and fraud, set against the lively backdrop of Victorian London.