Jennifer Robson
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory, burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation in spite of their nation's recent victory. Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers in the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman Hartnell. Together they forge an unlikely friendship, but their bond, along with their nascent hopes for a brighter future, are...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Follows the owner and three very different residents of the Blue Lion Hotel as London prepares to celebrate the upcoming coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
Coronation Year, 1953, and a new queen is about to be crowned. The people of London are in a mood to celebrate. Edie Howard, owner and operator of the floundering Blue Lion Hotel, has found the miracle she needs: on Coronation Day, Queen Elizabeth in her gold coach will pass by the hotel's...