Park Lane

by Frances Osborne | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 1844084779 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Beqi of Daventry, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on 5/22/2013
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Journal Entry 1 by Beqi from Daventry, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, May 22, 2013
London, 1914. Two young women dream of breaking free from tradition and obligation; they know that suffragettes are on the march and that war looms, but at 35 Park Lane, Lady Masters, head of a dying industrial dynasty, insists that life is about service and duty.

Below stairs, housemaid Grace Campbell is struggling. Her family in Carlisle believes she is a high earning secretary, but she has barely managed to get work in service - something she keeps even from her adored brother. Asked to send home more money than she earns, Grace is in trouble.

As third housemaid she waits on Miss Beatrice, the youngest daughter of the house, who, fatigued with the social season, is increasingly drawn into Mrs Pankhurst's captivating underground world of militant suffragettes. Soon Bea is playing a dangerous game that will throw her in the path of a man her mother wouldn't let through the front door.

Then war comes and it is not just their secrets - now on a collision course - that will change their lives for good.

Brilliantly capturing a deeply fascinating period of British life in which the normal boundaries of behaviour were overturned and the social hierarchy could no longer be taken for granted, Park Lane is as gripping and intense as Frances Osborne's number one bestselling The Bolter.

Journal Entry 2 by Beqi at Daventry, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, May 22, 2013
I read this book a few months ago, and I really enjoyed it. I love historical novels, and if they're set in London, even better! Good characters and a good storyline, I would recommend it, although I did prefer Ms Osborne's previous book "The Bolter", but they're completely different books, to be fair.

I particularly enjoyed Miss Beatrice's character, and how she evolves throughout the book ,and then how everything connects as the story unwinds.

I'd definitely read Frances Osborne's next book. Recommended read.

Journal Entry 3 by Beqi at White Hart Pub/Hotel in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire United Kingdom on Thursday, December 4, 2014

Released 9 yrs ago (12/4/2014 UTC) at White Hart Pub/Hotel in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire United Kingdom

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Taking half a dozen books along to a meet-up with the girls tonight. This is a goodie, so it's sure to be taken!

Journal Entry 4 by darkhorse4460 at East Hagbourne, Oxfordshire United Kingdom on Thursday, December 4, 2014
Taken by me. Looks good :-)

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