Shrines of Gaiety

Kate Atkinson

ISBN 10: 0857526553 / ISBN 13: 9780857526557

Published by Doubleday, 2022

About this Item

Signed by author, Kate Atkinson, direct to the title page. A 1st printing. Text block edge is sprayed blue, with blue ribbon book marker. Book is in as new (VF/VF) condition, thus binding is tight, crisp, and clean. Dust jacket is protected in mylar - plastic sleeve.

Seller Inventory # 001091

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shrines of Gaiety
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857526553
• ISBN 13: 9780857526557
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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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.