Cover of Abdication

Book 2012

Abdication

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Publisher
Sound Library
Published
2012
  • Secrets
  • Social life and customs
  • Aristocracy (Social class)
  • London (England)
  • Fiction
  • History
  • London (england), fiction
  • Fiction, romance, historical

In a tale set against a backdrop of pre-World War II turbulence in England and Edward VIII's scandalous affair, a fatherless chauffeur shares an undeclared love with a complex Oxford undergraduate, a housekeeper hides her Nazi sympathies and a woman struggles with escalating tensions in her friendship with Wallace Simpson.