Park Lane
分類: 图书,进口原版,Literature & Fiction（文学与虚构类）,Genre Fiction（类型小说）,Historical,
品牌: Frances Osborne
基本信息出版社:Vintage (2012年6月12日)丛书名:Vintage平装:336页正文语种:英语ISBN:0345803280条形码:9780345803283商品重量:367 gASIN:0345803280您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介The bestselling author ofThe Bolterreturns with a delicious novel about two determined women whose lives collide in the halls of a pedigreed London town home.
When eighteen-year-old Grace Carlisle arrives in London in 1914, she’s unable to fulfill her family's ambitions and find a position as an office secretary. Lying to her parents and her brother, Michael, she takes a job as a housemaid at Number 35, Park Lane, where she is quickly caught up in lives of its inhabitants--in particular, those of its privileged son, Edward, and daughter, Beatrice, who has just returned from America after being unceremoniously jilted by her fiancé. Desperate to find a new purpose, Beatrice joins the radical suffragist movement and strikes up an intriguing romance with an impassioned young lawyer. But unbeknownst to both of the young women, the choices they make will connect their chances at future happiness in dramatic and inevitable ways.媒体推荐Acclaim for Frances Osborne'sThe Bolter:
“Fascinating. . . beautifully written. . . . Frances Osborne brings the decadence of Britain’s dying aristocracy vividly to life in this story of scandal and heartbreak.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, author ofYoung StalinandStalin: Court of the Red Tsar
“Osborne spins out an enjoyable pot-boiler, with lots of juicy details.” —New York Post
“[A] wildly entertaining biography.” —More
“Intoxicating.” —People
“For those who can’t ever get enough of the frolics and affairs of the British upper class in the ‘20s and ‘30s,thisis the book for you. . . . Brilliant and utterly divine. . . . Full of charming details and wonderfully good stories about old scandals. . . . It’s a breath of fresh air from a vanished world.” —Michael Korda,The Daily Beast
“Osborne has written an engaging book, drawing a revealing portrait of a remarkable woman and adding humanity to her 'scandalous' life. . . . And what a life it was." —The Wall Street Journal
“Osborne’s lively narrative brings Lady Idina Sackville boldly to life. . . the text, most lyrical when describing the landscapes around Idina’s African residences, proves than an adventurous spirit continues to run in this fascinating family.” —Publishers Weekly(starred)
“Sex, money, glamour, and scandal make Idina Sackville’s story hard to put down. What brings that story to life is the courage of an incorrigibly stylish survivor. Searching for the woman behind the legend Osborne discovers [gives us] a heroine impossible to resist.” —Frances Kiernan, author ofThe Last Mrs. AstorandSeeing Mary Plain:A life of Mary McCarthy
“A superb portrait of an astonishing woman and her times.” —WBQ
“An engaging, definitive final look back at those naughty people who, between the wars, took their bad behaviour off to Kenya and whose upper-class delinquency became gilded with unjustified glamour.” —Alexandra Fuller,Financial Times
“An enthralling portrait of upper class English life just before, during and immediately after the Great War.” —Robert McCrum,TheObserver(London)
“[It] combines the tingling immediacy of the best kind of history with the stay-up-till-3am-to-finish-it urgency of a bestseller.” —Allison Pearson,TheDaily Mail
“Passionate and headstrong, Lady Idina was determined to be free even if the cost was scandal and ruin. Frances Osborne has brilliantly captured not only one woman’s life but an entire lost society.” —Amanda Foreman, author ofGeorgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
“A corker of a subject. Idina’s behaviour was out ofVile Bodies, the stuff of fiction: she became 'Iris Storm' in Michael Arlen’s novelThe Green Hat; and probably inspired “The Bolter” in Nancy Mitford’sThe Pursuit of Love. Osborne’s richly wrought descriptions (of glittering Paris nights and lush mountainous landscapes of Kenya’s Happy Valley) are fabulous. . . . A breakneck-paced, thoroughly diverting story." —Valerie Grove,The Times(London)
