Shrines of gaiety / Kate Atkinson.

By:

Atkinson, Kate [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Random House, 2022.Edition: First large print editionDescription: 609 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

9780593663318
0593663314

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DDC classification:

823/.914 23/eng/20220901

Summary: "1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. The notorious queen of this glittering world is Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children, including the enigmatic eldest, Niven, whose character has been forged in the crucible of the Somme. But success breeds enemies, and Nellie's empire faces threats from without and within. For beneath the dazzle of Soho's gaiety, there is a dark underbelly, a world in which it is all too easy to become lost"--

List(s) this item appears in: AF-New Adult Fiction

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Large Print	Library Big Room	Fiction	A-LP FIC ATK (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	01/19/2023	34258000346597

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"1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. The notorious queen of this glittering world is Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children, including the enigmatic eldest, Niven, whose character has been forged in the crucible of the Somme. But success breeds enemies, and Nellie's empire faces threats from without and within. For beneath the dazzle of Soho's gaiety, there is a dark underbelly, a world in which it is all too easy to become lost"--