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A historical novel based around the events of the abdication of King Edward VIII, and the approach of WWII. The author has a bestselling track-record in non-fiction books of this period, and she combines a real feel for it with a strong plot and characters in this novel of secrets, hidden truths, undeclared loves, unspoken sympathies and covert complicities.
Synopsis
From critically acclaimed historian Juliet Nicolson, a novel of a King and country torn between private desire and public duty on the eve of the Second World War
