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27 de set. de 2022 · Set in London 1926, this novel follows Nellie Coker and her six children as they navigate the dangers and temptations of the Roaring Twenties. Shrines of Gaiety is a Goodreads Choice Award nominee for Best Historical Fiction (2022).
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Shrines of Gaiety is a novel by British author Kate Atkinson, published in 2022 by Doubleday. Plot [ edit ] Set in London in the Roaring Twenties , [1] the book centres on the infamous London nightclubs owned by Nellie Coker (loosely based on Kate Meyrick , the 1920's London nightclub proprietor) and her son Niven, the latter having ...
23 de set. de 2022 · Fiction. ‘Shrines of Gaiety’ Finds Kate Atkinson in a Dickensian Mood. In this fizzy picaresque, the novelist conjures a London coming alive after World War I, where a nightclub empire offers...
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27 de set. de 2022 · 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.
About Shrines of Gaiety. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to a restless London in the wake of the Great War—a city bursting with money, glamour, and corruption—in this spellbinding tale of seduction and betrayal. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: WASHINGTON POST, TIME, THE GUARDIAN, BOOKLIST
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27 de set. de 2022 · Kindle Edition. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to a restless London in the wake of the Great War—a city bursting with money, glamour, and corruption—in this spellbinding tale of seduction and betrayal.
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.
