Shrines of Gaiety (Broché)

Name: Shrines of Gaiety
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Author: Kate Atkinson
ISBN: 9781804991053

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Kate Atkinson

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Paru le : 27/04/2023

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... > Lire la suite

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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. At the heart of this glittering world is notorious Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children. 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 ...

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Date de parution : 27/04/2023
Editeur : Penguin Books
ISBN : 978-1-80499-105-3
EAN : 9781804991053
Format : Grand Format
Présentation : Broché
Nb. de pages : 515 pages
Poids : 0.38 Kg
Dimensions : 13,0 cm × 20,0 cm × 3,0 cm

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Biographie de Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson is one of the world's foremost novelists. She won the Costa Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her three critically lauded and prize-winning novels set around the Second World War are Life After Life, an acclaimed 2022 BBC TV series starring Thomasin McKenzie, A God in Ruins (both winners of the Costa Novel Award) and Transcription. Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News ? and Started Early, Took My Dog, became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs.
Jackson Brodie later returned in the novel Big Sky. Kate Atkinson was awarded an MBE in 2011 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.