Shrines of Gaiety (Signed, Limited UK First Edition)

Atkinson, Kate

ISBN 10: 0857526553 / ISBN 13: 9780857526557

Published by Doubleday, London, 2022

About this Item

SIGNED, FIRST UK LIMITED EDITION, FIRST PRINTING ("1" on copyright page), London, Doubleday in association with Goldsboro Books, September 2022. NEW, UNREAD. Signed by the Author on the Title/Limitation Page. This copy is number 864 of 1500 numbered copies. No dust jacket, as issued. Text Clean, no marks. Binding Tight and Square. Pictorial Black Cloth Boards with Gilt Design and Lettering on the Front, Back, and Spine. The Boards are Clean, no wear, no bumps. Has a gold sewn-in ribbon marker. Books are Carefully Packed and Shipped Daily with USPS Tracking from a Dry, Smoke-Free shop. Signed, First UK Limited Edition, First Printing.

Seller Inventory # 3498 A197

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shrines of Gaiety (Signed, Limited UK First Edition)
• Publisher: Doubleday, London
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857526553
• ISBN 13: 9780857526557
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: None as issued
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • British Edition
  • Signed
  • 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.