Gone With the Windsors - Hardcover

Graham, Laurie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0007146752 ISBN 13: 9780007146758

Verlag: Fourth Estate, 2005

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Críticas:

‘Told in the breathless style of Anita Loos’s “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, but with the waspish humour of Nancy Mitford, the novel captures the mood of the era with near-flawless accuracy.’ The Times

‘As fresh and tangy as Wally's favourite dinner party dessert, strawberry sherbet. Maybell Brumby is a wonderfully sassy creation.’ Sunday Times

‘The story of Edward, Mrs Simpson and the abdication crisis might be familiar enough. Graham's gift is imagining the details.’ Daily Mail

‘Refreshing, honest and very funny. It’s the best kind of popular women’s fiction – enjoyable without being thoughtless, smart without being superficial.’ Scotsman

‘As fascinating for what it says about the interwar traffic between British and American high society as the ensuing scandal at court.’ Independent

‘The story is an absolute pleasure to read from start to finish. By infusing her sharp satire and meticulous social observation with a certain sweetness, Laurie Graham proves herself a master of showing without ever needing to tell.’ Time Out

‘A vivid, creative storyteller.’ Times Literary Supplement

Praise for Laurie Graham:

'She has wit and insight to match Nick Hornby, and the entertainment value of Helen Fielding.' Nicolette Jones, Independent

'A marvel. Graham’s style is riveting, hilarious one-liners falling in quick succession.’ Anthea Lawson, The Times

‘You can’t help being charmed by a woman who describes being sexually smitten as “the same pleasant shock as the first time I touched a frog”. Wildly funny.’ Sunday Times

Reseña del editor:

A hilarious and touching novel from Laurie Graham; the fictional diary of Mrs Simpson’s best friend in pre-war London.

Laurie Graham’s hilarious novel is the fictional diary of Maybell Brumby, a wealthy American widow who arrives in London in 1932 and discovers that an old school friend is in town; Bessie Wallis Warfield, now Mrs Ernest Simpson. Maybell and Wally are made for one another. The one has money and a foothold in good society, courtesy of a sister who married well. The other has ruthless ambition and enough energy to power the National Grid. Before the year is out Wally has begun her seduction of the Prince of Wales, and as she clambers towards the throne she makes sure Maybell and her cheque book are always close at hand.

So Maybell becomes an eye-witness to the Abdication Crisis. From her perch in Carlton Gardens, home of her influential brother-in-law Lord Melhuish, she has the perfect vantage point for observing the anxious, changing allegiances for and against Queen Wally, and the political contours of pre-war London.

When the crisis comes and Wally flees to the south of France, she insists on Maybell going with her. 'Are you sure that's advisable, darling?' asks the King. ‘Of course it is,’ snaps Wally. ‘She’s the Paymaster General.’ Maybell’s diary records the marriage, the Windsors’ exile, and the changing complexion of the Greatest Love Story. It takes the sound of German jackboots at the gate and personal tragedy to make her close its pages for the last time.

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• Verlag: Fourth Estate
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0007146752
• ISBN 13: 9780007146758
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 512