Book description
Glamorous Alice Keach is one of 1930s London's foremost hostesses.
Despite humble American origins, she has secured her place in high
society through marriage to one of England's wealthiest bachelors.
But Alice has a secret. Its roots run years back, and miles away, to
the dust-blasted prairies of Kansas. It corncerns a lost little boy
left under the haphazard guidance of an eccentric uncle. Now, a visit
from America looks set to blow apart Alice's glittering pre-eminence forever.
D. J. Taylor was born in Norwich in 1960. He is a novelist, critic
and acclaimed biographer, whose biography of Thackeray was a
critically-acclaimed success and whose
Orwell: The Life
won the Whitbread Biography prize in 2003. His most recent books are
Kept: A Victorian Mystery
(a
Publishers Weekly
Book of the Year) and
Derby Day: A Victorian Mystery.
He is also the author of
Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a
Generation 1918-1940
, and the novel
At the Chime of a City Clock
.
