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Book Synopsis''It''s just brilliant - full of poetry'' - Jilly Cooper
Set in wartime London and occupied France, this is a thrilling story of love, danger and sacrifice from bestselling novelist Alan Titchmarsh.
It is the late 1930s when seventeen-year-old Rosamund Hanbury leaves behind the endless summers of her coastal Devonshire home for the fast pace of high society London.
Under the expert guidance of her formidable aunt, the country mouse learns how to act like a lady, hosting dinner parties and rubbing shoulders with Britain''s most influential. And when the enigmatic Harry Napier sweeps her off her feet at London''s famous Café de Paris she could almost forget that Britain has declared war.
But the Phoney War ends. Harry is posted, London reels from the first bombings of the Blitz and Rosamund suffers a devastating personal loss that leaves her all the more determined to do her bit for the war effort.
Joining the Special Forces she is sent
Trade Review
PRAISE FOR THE SCARLET NIGHTINGALE:
It's just brilliant - full of poetry * Jilly Cooper *
PRAISE FOR ALAN TITCHMARSH:
A perfect love story * Katie Fforde on THE HAUNTING *
A pleasurable read which fans will lap up * Daily Mail *
The story brims with intrigue * Daily Express on THE HAUNTING *
Art, antiques and romance are the ingredients: Titchmarsh boils the pot to a fine froth * Saga Magazine on THE FOLLY *
