The bestselling author of The Bolter returns with a
delicious novel about two determined women whose lives
collide in the halls of a pedigreed London town
home.
When eighteen-year-old Grace Carlisle
arrives in London in 1914, she’s unable to fulfill her
family's ambitions and find a position as an office
secretary. Lying to her parents and her brother, Michael,
she takes a job as a housemaid at Number 35, Park Lane,
where she is quickly caught up in lives of its
inhabitants--in particular, those of its privileged
son, Edward, and daughter, Beatrice, who has just
returned from America after being unceremoniously jilted by
her fiancé. Desperate to find a new purpose, Beatrice joins
the radical suffragist movement and strikes up an
intriguing romance with an impassioned young lawyer. But
unbeknownst to both of the young women, the choices they
make will connect their chances at future happiness in
dramatic and inevitable ways.
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