The Paris Affair
Escape with the uplifting, romantic new book from Strictly Come Dancing star Anton Du Beke
In the darkest days of war, a stranger will change everything.<BR> Paris, 1926. A young dancer Ray Cohen arrives from London to compete at the Exhibition Paris. He is led astray by Hugo, a charismatic dancer born of the streets, who introduces him to the city's nightlife and a dazzling stranger called Hannah Lindt. <BR> London, 1941. With the heroic Raymond de Guise away fighting in North Africa, his beloved wife Nancy must balance her new position - as Head of Housekeeping at the Buckingham Hotel - with life as a new mother to their child. As the war rages on, a charismatic stranger from Raymond's past arrives at Nancy's doorstep, asking for work at the Buckingham Hotel.<BR> <BR> As dark secrets rise to the surface, the very heart of the Buckingham Hotel is under threat. Will tragedy strike?
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In the darkest days of war, a stranger will change everything.<BR> Paris, 1926. A young dancer Ray Cohen arrives from London to compete at the Exhibition Paris. He is led astray by Hugo, a charismatic dancer born of the streets, who introduces him to the city's nightlife and a dazzling stranger called Hannah Lindt. <BR> London, 1941. With the heroic Raymond de Guise away fighting in North Africa, his beloved wife Nancy must balance her new position - as Head of Housekeeping at the Buckingham Hotel - with life as a new mother to their child. As the war rages on, a charismatic stranger from Raymond's past arrives at Nancy's doorstep, asking for work at the Buckingham Hotel.<BR> <BR> As dark secrets rise to the surface, the very heart of the Buckingham Hotel is under threat. Will tragedy strike?
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Escape with the uplifting, romantic new book from Strictly Come Dancing star Anton Du Beke
H | B | T | Gramm
162 mm | 242 mm | 44 mm | 0.75 kg
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
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0
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Hardcover
Verlag
Orion
ISBN-10
1398710121
ISBN-13
9781398710122
Autor
Anton Du Beke
Sprache
Englisch
Seitenanzahl
496
Themen
Historische Liebesromane / Romance
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Anton Du Beke
Anton Du Beke - the King of Ballroom, Strictly Come Dancing royalty, and household name - is one of this generation's all-round entertainers. In 2018, he realised his boyhood ambition and published the first in a series of bestselling novels set in the 1930s world of the exclusive Mayfair hotel, The Buckingham.
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