Shrines of Gaiety

Atkinson, Kate

ISBN 10: 0857526553 / ISBN 13: 9780857526557

Published by Doubleday, London, United Kingdom, 2022

About this Item

First UK Edition, First Printing. This is a true first edition, first printing (first impression) with no statement of reprint to the copyright page therefore indicating a true first print. All edges of text block blue as called for. Signed by Kate Atkinson to the title page.

Seller Inventory # 016231

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shrines of Gaiety
• Publisher: Doubleday, London, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857526553
• ISBN 13: 9780857526557
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

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.

With her unique Dickensian flair, Kate Atkinson brings together a glittering cast of characters in a truly mesmeric novel that captures the uncertainty and mutability of life; of a world in which nothing is quite as it seems.