Linda Lyall is sent from a Children’s Home to the wealthy Hampton family. By mistake they think she is blind and she takes advantage of this to play on their sympathy.
When orphan Helen Mostyn reached Victorian England from America, she was horrified to hear her half-sister, Jade, plotting against her life. Grandmother Mostyn planned to leave her fortune to the two girls but would not sign her will until she had seen Helen. Pretending that the real Helen Mostyn was lost overboard on the homeward voyage, Helen agreed to impersonate herself! It was her only chance of remaining safe while preventing Jade from harming their grandmother. Jade’s cousin, Gaston Garvel, was an accomplice in the evil plan.
Sisters of Deceit – Judy: #1014 (16 June 1979) – #1025 (1 September 1979)
Kate Williams is about to be adopted by Lord and Lady Lester when she is badly burned in fire caused by nasty Emily West. When she recovers, she discovers that Emily is posing as her to be adopted in her place. Kate goes into the household as a scullery maid to expose Emily, but is impeded by the loss of her voice from the fire and being illiterate. She is overcoming the latter by learning to write, but Emily keeps sabotaging her efforts to prove her identity, and eventually gets her thrown into prison.
Queen Helena of Ravia rarely appears in public because of her shyness. So the nobles, led by Baron de Guise, want to put Helena’s cousin Prince Hugo on the throne, deeming him a better ruler. Bess, the Queen’s old nurse, tries to outwit the Baron by training a wandering player, Karin, to take the Queen’s place. Prince Hugo agrees to this, but the Baron is determined to stop the Queen from being crowned, and it may only be a matter of time before he discovers Karin.
Mavis Wade is becoming famous as Kate Kimble, a music-hall singer, with the help of her singing teacher, Madame Bosetti. But Mavis has to keep it secret from her family, especially her father, because he disapproves of theatres and theatre folk.
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Former film star Carla Deane forces her fourteen-year-old daughter Dolly to dress in babyish clothes to conceal her true age from people. She sends Dolly to boarding school and has her put in the juniors. But Dolly makes a friend in Jo-Ann Connors, who knows her situation and tries to help.
Joanne Hurst and Kelly Thomas are best friends. They decide to ban boys after some bad experiences with them and just stick together. Then Kelly meets Brian, a boy she can’t resist, and starts dating him in secret from Joanne.
Janet Osbourne and Tracey Mullins are best friends, and are dismayed to find they are being sent to different schools. They resolve to keep their friendship nonetheless. At her new school, Janet makes best friends with Anne. When she finds out Anne is really Mary-Anne, the cousin Tracey dislikes, she sets out to keep her friendship with the cousin secret from Tracey.
Plot:
Kim Cartwright realises that Tricia Hudson, who has been living with the family since her parents’ deaths, is faking blindness to get anything she wants. Tricia is also playing dirty tricks to push Kim out and take her place in the family. But Kim cannot prove it because Tricia is too clever to be caught out. The situation reaches the point where the parents decide to send Kim to boarding school.
Amy Miller is thirteen, but small for her age. When photographer Don Dawson mistakes Amy for an eight-year-old, her unscrupulous Aunt Pearl forces her to keep up the deception in order to work as a model. Aunt Pearl even goes as far as to keep Amy underfed in order to stunt her growth and keep her in the primers at school.
