Shrines of Gaiety - Signed First Printing

Atkinson, Kate

ISBN 10: 0857526553 / ISBN 13: 9780857526557

Published by Doubleday, London, 2022

About this Item

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine, no inscriptions. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine, not price clipped (£20). 1st UK Edition, 1st Printing with just the number 1 on copyright page. Blue boards with gilt titles to the spine and front. Signed by the author on an attractive bookplate customised to book on front end paper (see picture). Seller Inventory # 003402

Bibliographic Details

Title: Shrines of Gaiety - Signed First Printing

Publisher: Doubleday, London

Publication Date: 2022

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

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.