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Abdication

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Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: 1/07/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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England, 1936. After the recent death of George V, the nation has a new king, Edward VIII. But for all the confident pomp and ceremony of the coronation, it's a turbulent time. Terrible poverty and unemployment affect many, but trouble few among the ruling elite; for others, Oswald Mosley's New Party, which offers a version of the fascism on the rise in Germany, seems to offer the vision of the future. Nineteen-year-old May Thomas has just disembarked at Liverpool Docks after making the long journey by steamer from Barbados to escape the constraints of her sugar-plantation childhood. Her first step towards her new life is securing a position as a secretary and chauffeuse to Sir Philip Blunt, Chief Whip in Baldwin's Conservative government - a job which will open her eyes to the upper echelons of British society.

Elegantly poignant ... Nicolson has an eye for prescient anecdotes Ruth Scurr, The Times on The Perfect Summer: Dancing Into Shadow in 1911 [Nicolson] sweeps across voices and classes to assemble a mosaic of sunlit impressions Boyd Tonkin, Independent An accomplished and engaging piece of social history Daily Telegraph This is a peach of a book. It is full of good things, sparkling, elegant and often funny. A cleverly crafted story of the hot, frenetic summer of 1911 which works because of the sparkling writing Jane Ridley, Literary Review

Title: Abdication
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Contributors: By (author) Juliet Nicolson

ISBN 13: 9781408831793
ISBN 10: 1408831791

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: 1/07/2012
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
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BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
NBS Classification: Unclassifiable: no BIC
Dewey Classification: 823.914 (DC21)

Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm