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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 Ladiesβ Choir comes a thrilling new WWII story about a village busybodyβthe mighty Mrs. Braithwaiteβwho 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 husbandβs 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 leftβher clever daughter Betty, who took work there at the first rumbles of war. But when she arrives, Bettyβs landlord, the timid Mr. Norris, informs her that Betty hasnβt been home in days--with the chaos of the bombs, thereβs 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 Bettyβs 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 thatβs 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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