Shrines Of Gaiety

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: DOUBLEDAY
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2022
Edition: First Edition

Description: 436 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. The notorious queen of this glittering world is Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children, including the enigmatic eldest, Niven whose character has been forged in the crucible of the Somme. But success breeds enemies, and Nellies empire faces threats from without and within. For beneath the dazzle of Sohos gaiety, there is a dark underbelly, a world in which it is all too easy to become lost. With her unique Dickensian flair, Kate Atkinson brings together a glittering cast of characters in a truly mesmeric novel that captures the uncertainty and mutability of life; of a world in which nothing is quite as it seems.

ISBN: 9780857526564