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The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
| Author:
Helen Simonson
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author:
Helen Simonson
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback
Original price was: ₹599.₹479Current price is: ₹479.
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Whip-smart and utterly transportive, this is historical fiction of the highest order – an unforgettable coming-of-age story, a tender romance, and a portrait of a nation on the brink of change
Summer, 1919: Constance Haverhill is forced to relinquish her beloved job – and cottage – at the estate she helped to run during the war.
Instead, she’s sent as an old lady’s companion to Hazelbourne-on-Sea, where she meets Poppy, a trouser-wearing local who runs a ladies’ motorcycle (and, hopefully soon, flying) club, and Harris, her recalcitrant but handsome brother – a pilot wounded in battle – who warms in Constance’s presence, among the other colourful inhabitants of this sunny pocket of high society.
But things are increasingly complicated. As the country prepares to celebrate peace, the women of the club are forced to confront the fact that the freedoms gained during the war are being revoked.
In a timeless comedy of manners, with sharp humour, biting wit and a warm heart, Simonson captures the mood of a generation facing the seismic changes brought on by war.
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Whip-smart and utterly transportive, this is historical fiction of the highest order – an unforgettable coming-of-age story, a tender romance, and a portrait of a nation on the brink of change
Summer, 1919: Constance Haverhill is forced to relinquish her beloved job – and cottage – at the estate she helped to run during the war.
Instead, she’s sent as an old lady’s companion to Hazelbourne-on-Sea, where she meets Poppy, a trouser-wearing local who runs a ladies’ motorcycle (and, hopefully soon, flying) club, and Harris, her recalcitrant but handsome brother – a pilot wounded in battle – who warms in Constance’s presence, among the other colourful inhabitants of this sunny pocket of high society.
But things are increasingly complicated. As the country prepares to celebrate peace, the women of the club are forced to confront the fact that the freedoms gained during the war are being revoked.
In a timeless comedy of manners, with sharp humour, biting wit and a warm heart, Simonson captures the mood of a generation facing the seismic changes brought on by war.
About Author
Helen Simonson was born in Buckinghamshire and spent her teenage years in a small village near Rye in East Sussex. Her debut novel, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, was an international bestseller, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick, and was translated and published in twenty one countries. A graduate of the London School of Economics, Helen is married, with two grown sons, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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