The Moon, the Stars, and Madame BurovaAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 21 September 2021
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From the wildly popular bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Thingsan uplifting, slightly magical story about how its never too late to find out who you really are.
"Ruth Hogan is thequeen of uplifting fictionandMadame Burovareminds us why. The writing crackles with humor and warmth.I can't imagine a better book in which to lose yourself at the moment. Stunning, immersive and absolutely wonderful." --Annie Lyons, author of The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett
Madame Burovabeloved Tarot reader, palmist, and clairvoyantis retiring and leaving her booth on the Brighton seafront.
After inheriting her mothers fortune-telling business as a young woman, Imelda Burova has spent her life on the Brighton pier practicing her trade. She and her trusty pack of Tarot cards have seen the lovers and the liars, the angels and the devils, the dreamers and the fools. Now, after a lifetime of keeping other peoples secrets, Madam Burova is ready to have a little piece of life for herself. But she still has one last thing to doto fulfill a promise made in the 1970s, when she and her girlfriends were carefree, with their whole lives still before them.
In London, it is time for another woman to make a fresh start. Billie has lost her university job, her marriage, and her place in the world when a sudden and unlikely discovery leaves her very identity in question. Determined to find answers, she must follow a trailwhich leads to Brighton, the pier, and directly to Madame Burovas door.
In a story spanning over fifty years, Ruth Hogan has conjured a magical world of 1970s holiday camps and seaside entertainers, eccentrics, heroes and villains, the lost and the found. Young people will make careless choices which echo down the years.but its never too late to put things right.
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