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Title details for Park Lane by Frances Osborne - Available

Park Lane

by Frances Osborne
Susan Duerden
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When eighteen-year-old Grace Campbell arrives in London in 1914, she's
unable to fulfill her family's ambitions and find a position as an
office secretary. Lying to her parents and her brother, Michael, she
takes a job as a housemaid at Number 35, Park Lane, where she is quickly
caught up in lives of its inhabitants—in particular, those of its
privileged son, Edward, and daughter, Beatrice, who is recovering from a
failed relationship that would have taken her away from an increasingly
stifling life. Desperate to find a new purpose, Bea joins a group of
radical suffragettes and strikes up an intriguing romance with an
impassioned young lawyer. Unbeknownst to each of the young women, the
choices they make amid the rapidly changing world of World War I will connect
their chances at future happiness in dramatic and inevitable ways.

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  • Release date

    October 15, 2012

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781452628844
      • File size: 308648 KB
      • Duration: 10:43:00

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Susan Duerden gives a perfect performance of the story of Beatrice, a privileged young lady, and one of her housemaids, Grace, who live in London during WWI. Duerden narrates the present-tense writing with an enticing sense of urgency, sweeping the listener into the immediacy of the story. In the beginning, it seems to be a typical story of ladies and housemaids--until Bea begins to take part in a radical suffragette movement. Duerden captures every emotion as Bea moves beyond the suffragettes to seek out danger and excitement during the war, finally realizing the true horror of it. Grace has her own struggles and horrors to deal with. The two women's lives are very different yet connected during the tumultuous time of war. M.M.G. (c) AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine

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