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Book Overview
The "volcanically sexy" ( USA Today ) bestseller about a widow and her daughter who take a young couple into their home in 1920s London. It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa--a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants--life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1594633924
ISBN13:9781594633928
Release Date:September 2015
Publisher:Riverhead Books
Length:592 Pages
Weight:0.97 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 5.1" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Very slow
Published by AliBrooke , 9 months ago
This book is an absolute chore to read. I trudged through 120 pages with no action of any kind and I finally gave up. I love period piece drama and this book sounded like something I would enjoy but it was just plain boring.
Great read
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 5 years ago
I purchased this book long ago and finally got around to reading it after reviewing the back several times and deciding it didn't sound very interesting, or deciding against it based on the length of the book. If only I'd known this was such a fascinating book; totally captured my attention... This is a somewhat scandalous read for 20s-30s (and up). Pleasantly surprised...
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