Shrines Of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson


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From the author of the bestselling "Life After Life" this new story tells of the nightlife in London in 1926. In Kate Atkinson's convincing and engaging style the characters of Soho come to life. In the nightclubs peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time.

At the heart of this glittering world is notorious 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 Nellie's empire faces threats from without and within. For beneath the dazzle of Soho's 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.

"Atkinson on her finest form. A marvel of plate-spinning narrative knowhow, a peak performance of consummate control." The Observer

Hardback 448 pages.

Approx: 16.3 x 24.1 cm.

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