Three young women; Chrysanthemum, Rose & Orage are thrown together performing as The Three Graces on the stage of Fankes' Theatre during the closing days of the Second World War.It's there they come under the spell of wardrobe mistresses Dolores and Janna - a chance encounter that will guide and change all of their fates forever.Set in the dying days of vaudeville theatre and laced with mysticism, fortune tellers, ghosts, and evocative descriptions of the closing days of the War - The Beloved Children will literally make you laugh out loud and perhaps even shed the odd tear.The Beloved Children is wise, funny, heart-breaking, joyous, poignant, and entirely entirely enthralling.Tina Jackson has conjured characters that you will fall unapologetically in love with and placed them in a world that you won't want to leave.This book genuinely weaves a spell around the reader and once you make friends with Janna, Dolores, and The Three Graces you'll never want to be without them in your life again.