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Shrines of Gaiety
by Kate Atkinson
LOVE at first page!
This is post war London in the roaring 20s full of glitter and grime, criminals and cocktails. Nellie Coker is a nightclub owner in Soho with a penchant to ignore silly laws when it suits her.
Her children are a constant headache to her and with the police sniffing at her door as dead girls keep piling up, Nellie needs to make sure her legacy is protected. Each child also has their own issues which we get to know from Niven, Edith, Betty, Shirley, Ramsay and Kitty's perspective.
Then we have inspector Forbisher, a melancholy character with a drug addicted wife and a career that is going nowhere slowly but he is determined to bring Nellie to book.
Enter Gwendolyn, a former librarian who cannot wait to grab life by the armful. She is in New York looking for two runaways and gets unofficially recruited in Forbisher’s plans to infiltrate the Coker domain.
So many characters but they are all incorporated seamlessly into the story. It’s a tale of murder and mayhem told through sly humor and dazzling writing.
If you liked [b:Fingersmith|8913370|Fingersmith|Sarah Waters|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1545241494l/8913370._SY75_.jpg|1014113] you will love this too.
Highly recommended.
This is post war London in the roaring 20s full of glitter and grime, criminals and cocktails. Nellie Coker is a nightclub owner in Soho with a penchant to ignore silly laws when it suits her.
Her children are a constant headache to her and with the police sniffing at her door as dead girls keep piling up, Nellie needs to make sure her legacy is protected. Each child also has their own issues which we get to know from Niven, Edith, Betty, Shirley, Ramsay and Kitty's perspective.
Then we have inspector Forbisher, a melancholy character with a drug addicted wife and a career that is going nowhere slowly but he is determined to bring Nellie to book.
Enter Gwendolyn, a former librarian who cannot wait to grab life by the armful. She is in New York looking for two runaways and gets unofficially recruited in Forbisher’s plans to infiltrate the Coker domain.
So many characters but they are all incorporated seamlessly into the story. It’s a tale of murder and mayhem told through sly humor and dazzling writing.
If you liked [b:Fingersmith|8913370|Fingersmith|Sarah Waters|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1545241494l/8913370._SY75_.jpg|1014113] you will love this too.
Highly recommended.