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Sep 27, 2022 · Shrines of Gaiety borrows its storyline and characters from history, basing its nightclub maven Nellie Coker on real-life entrepreneur Kate Meyrick. Coker rose from widowed penury to create an empire of nightclubs scattered throughout London, each with its own flavor and whiff of decadent corruption.
Sep 23, 2022 · Fiction. ‘Shrines of Gaiety’ Finds Kate Atkinson in a Dickensian Mood. In this fizzy picaresque, the novelist conjures a London coming alive after World War I, where a nightclub empire...
- Leah Greenblatt
Set in London in the Roaring Twenties, [1] the book centres on the infamous London nightclubs owned by Nellie Coker (loosely based on Kate Meyrick, the 1920's London nightclub proprietor) and her son Niven, the latter having returned from fighting in the Somme in World War I.
Sep 27, 2022 · Shrines of Gaiety: A Novel. Kindle Edition. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to a restless London in the wake of the Great War—a city bursting with money, glamour, and corruption—in this spellbinding tale of seduction and betrayal.
Sep 27, 2022 · Hardcover – September 27, 2022. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to a restless London in the wake of the Great War—a city bursting with money, glamour, and corruption—in this spellbinding tale of seduction and betrayal.
With her unique Dickensian flair, Kate Atkinson gives us a window in a vanished world. Slyly funny, brilliantly observant, and ingeniously plotted, Shrines of Gaiety showcases the myriad talents that have made Atkinson one of the most lauded writers of our time.
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A heady brew of crime, romance and satire set amid the sordid glitz of London nightlife in the 1920s . . . Shrines of Gaiety sees Atkinson on her finest form . . . A marvel of plate-spinning narrative knowhow . . . a peak performance of consummate control. -- Anthony Cummins ― OBSERVER.
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