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Gallery Books
February 2013
On Sale: January 29, 2013
368 pages
ISBN: 1451673256
EAN: 9781451673258
Kindle: B007EE4N80
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Historical
A passionate historical debut novel about a young woman in turn-of-the-century England who finds love and independence at a seashore resort. In Victorian London, thereβs only so far an unmarried woman can go, and Betsey Dobson has relied on her wits and cunning to take herself as far as she canβto a position as a typewriter girl. But still, Betsey yearns for something moreβ¦so when sheβs offered a position as the excursions manager at a seaside resort, she knows this is her chance for security, for independence, for an identity forged by her own work and not a manβs opinion. Underqualified for the job and on the wrong side of the aristocratic resort owner, Betsey struggles to prove herself and looks to the one person who can support her new venture: Mr. Jones, the ambitious Welshman building the resortβs pleasure fair. As she and Mr. Jones grow ever closer, Betsey begins to dream that she might finally have found her place in the worldβbut when her past returns to haunt her, she must fight for what sheβs worked so hardβ¦or risk losing everything. This eloquent debut novel displays firm propriety barely restraining seething passionβa sizzling combination reminiscent of Downton Abbey.
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