The respectable Morlands are pillars of the local chapel and expect their daughter Tessa to marry a man like her father and live within walking distance of their Bristol cottage. Tessa, who has worked in a grocer’s shop since she left school, longs for more out of her dull life.
Eve Brook is beautiful and rich – but her parents’ indifference has made her demanding and spoilt. And attempts to push Eve into marriage with a suitable man result in her becoming even more rebellious.
The funeral of their great-grandmother brings the two cousins together and they become friends of a sort – Eve enjoys an appreciative audience, and Tessa, seduced by her sophistication, is ready to be that audience. Music is the one thing they do have in common and they form the Kissing Cousins, a singing act that quickly becomes the rage al private parties, nightclubs and, eventually, Hollywood.
ut Tessa is the more talented of the pair and Eve, ever jealous, is tormented into behaving badly towards her cousin. She tries to win over any man in hom Tessa is interested, and discards them when she has succeeded. Tessa akes it with apparent tolerance, sensing the loneliness and vulnerability her cousin tries to hide, but she finds it impossible to have a real relationship oh, tone to her career for satisfaction.
But Tessa is the more talented of the pair and Eve, ever jealous, is tormented into behaving badly towards her cousin. She tries to win over any man in whom Tessa is interested, and discards them when she has succeeded. Tessa takes it with apparent tolerance, sensing the loneliness and vulnerability her cousin tries to hide, but she finds it impossible to have a real relationship and increasingly turns to her career for satisfaction.
