Penguin
The Palace Girls
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Back in the London Blitz of 1941, Millie Hendry, aged 11, loses both parents and is subsequently raised by firm-but-fair Aunt Edie, long-standing cleaner at ...Read Review
Land Girls at the Wartime Bookshop (The Wartime Bookshop, 2)
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England 1941. Nothing lasts forever. The vicar’s demise prompts fears of a similar fate befalling the Churchwood village bookshop, due to the snobby, ...Read Review
The Chimney Sweep’s Sister
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Think anger management. Orphan Jenny (aged 16) has, in her own words, “a gob the size of a train tunnel”. Uncontrollable foul-mouthed rants and ...Read Review
The Golden Doves
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Building on the success of her Lilac Girls trilogy, Kelly’s The Golden Doves takes the reader into the turbulent decade following the ...Read Review
Murder Under the Tuscan Sun
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Tuscany 1927, and 49-year-old widow Constance Bowen, living in pedestrian Pinner in Middlesex, answers an advertisement in The Lady requesting a nurse/companion. Her ...Read Review
The Ballroom Girls (Ballroom Girls, 1)
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Set in Blackpool during the summer of 1942 we follow three friends – Sylvia, Pearl and Joy – as they learn, or in Sylvia’s case ...Read Review
The Romantic
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The Romantic, William Boyd’s seventeenth novel, takes the form of a personal narrative and life story. A sweeping adventure covering almost an ...Read Review
Winter’s Daughter
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Hull, November 1856. A storm surge sweeps up the Humber estuary, flooding an ancient cellar crammed with dozens of homeless people. Mr James Ripley, ...Read Review
A Rose and a Promise
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Following the main character, Cadi, as the Second World War continues through the spring of 1944, initially there are many threads simmering just outside ...Read Review
The Vienna Writers Circle
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The German annexation of Austria in 1938 plunges its cosmopolitan European capital into the nightmare of authoritarian restrictions and genocide that had already gathered ...Read Review