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Crown
June 2019
On Sale: June 4, 2019
368 pages
ISBN: 0525576495
EAN: 9780525576495
Kindle: B07K62LGW8
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From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies’
Choir comes a thrilling new WWII story about a village
busybody—the mighty Mrs. Braithwaite—who resolves to find,
and then rescue, her missing daughter Mrs. Braithwaite, self-appointed queen of her English
village, finds herself dethroned, despised, and dismissed
following her husband’s selfish divorce petition. Never
deterred, the threat of a family secret being revealed sets
her hot-foot to London to find the only person she has
left—her clever daughter Betty, who took work there at the
first rumbles of war. But when she arrives, Betty’s landlord, the timid Mr.
Norris, informs her that Betty hasn’t been home in
days--with the chaos of the bombs, there’s no telling what
might have befallen her. Aghast, Mrs. Braithwaite sets her
bullish determination to the task of finding her only daughter. Storming into the London Blitz, Mrs. Braithwaite drags the
reluctant Mr. Norris along as an unwitting sidekick as they
piece together Betty’s unexpectedly chaotic life. As she is
thrown into the midst of danger and death, Mrs. Braithwaite
is forced to rethink her old-fashioned notions of status,
class, and reputation, and to reconsider the question that’s
been puzzling her since her world overturned: How do you
measure the success of your life? Readers will be charmed by the unforgettable Mrs.
Braithwaite and her plucky, ruthless optimism, and find in
The Spies of Shilling Lane a novel with surprising
twists and turns, quiet humor, and a poignant examination of
mothers and daughters and the secrets we keep.
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