Accidental DarlingsAuthor :
Hardback
Published : Thursday 1 August 2024
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1924. When Anastasias beloved mother dies, she has no choice but to go to rural Skimpole and move in with `the Aunt - too fearsome for a first name, an outcast from the village who lives in a dilapidated mansion with two servants and an unruly pack of dogs. The many mysteries of Skimpole are irresistibly intriguing: how did Anastasias father really die? Who wrote the extremely raunchy love letters she has found in the Aunts bedroom, signed `Big Willy? And why does everyone in the village hate the Aunt so much? When some of the Aunts friends from her youth arrive at the house, wreathed in cigarette smoke and an air of debauchery, Anastasia may be closer to finding answers - but the truth she was so desperate to uncover will turn her entire world upside down. From the author of THE INVERTS (`the sort of thing Nancy Mitford might have written if shed been gay. wonderfully blithe, witty and moving - Rowan Pelling, Daily Mail), this is a delightfully subversive and darkly funny novel, inspired in part by Dickens Great Expectations.
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