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During WWII, four women from vastly different backgrounds, recruited as agents for the Special Operations Executive (SOE), became bonded through triumph and tragedy. But on a final, fateful mission to France, they are betrayed, captured, and one of them, the beautiful and enigmatic Gabrielle Lupin, was executed by the Gestapo.
Twenty years later, amid the rush and wildness of the 60s, the extraordinary work done by women in the war is finally coming to light. When the sudden death of a leading war historian and a mysterious letter push Gabrielle’s daughter to investigate what really happened, she has to team up with her mother’s old comrades.
Once united by the war, these three women’s lives couldn’t be more different. Flip, a Southern Belle with a prosthetic leg, is now married and well off, while Zaina, an Indian Londoner and former wireless operator, writes popular children’s books; and the fabulous Bella left behind her expertise in explosives for fiery love affairs as an iconic dancer and singer. Together, all four women discover dangerous secrets that threaten their friendship and reveal a conspiracy behind that last, fateful and deadly last mission to Paris. A conspiracy that unseen forces will stop at nothing to keep secret.
Twenty years later, amid the rush and wildness of the 60s, the extraordinary work done by women in the war is finally coming to light. When the sudden death of a leading war historian and a mysterious letter push Gabrielle’s daughter to investigate what really happened, she has to team up with her mother’s old comrades.
Once united by the war, these three women’s lives couldn’t be more different. Flip, a Southern Belle with a prosthetic leg, is now married and well off, while Zaina, an Indian Londoner and former wireless operator, writes popular children’s books; and the fabulous Bella left behind her expertise in explosives for fiery love affairs as an iconic dancer and singer. Together, all four women discover dangerous secrets that threaten their friendship and reveal a conspiracy behind that last, fateful and deadly last mission to Paris. A conspiracy that unseen forces will stop at nothing to keep secret.
BY DEFINITION: THE SUPRISING HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY by Peter Sokolowski
THE HOUSE OF CROMWELL: BRITAIN’S FORGOTTEN DYNASTY by Miranda Malins
The first ever complete chronicle of the Cromwells, the family that changed England forever.
Two powerful, controversial men who had an astonishing impact on British history—Thomas and Oliver Cromwell—were commoners who came from the same family. These two men started out with nothing and ended with nothing, but not before they—and the rest of their family – had changed the face of British history, becoming architects of the early modern world in the process.
In THE HOUSE OF CROMWELL, historian Miranda Malins takes readers on an extraordinary journey through two centuries from the Wars of the Roses to the accession of the Hanoverians. This expedition through some of the important years in British history overflows with explosive family dynamics, power struggles that would determine dynastic succession, and the eruption of overlooked voices from the past—particularly those of the Cromwell women—that determined the family’s fate.
Family mattered above all else to Thomas and Oliver Cromwell. Without understanding the entire dynasty, however, one can never understand their impact on Britain and the world. Miranda Malins’ THE HOUSE OF CROMWELL is the first, complete history of the most unique, disruptive, creative and controversial family to rule Britain.
In THE HOUSE OF CROMWELL, historian Miranda Malins takes readers on an extraordinary journey through two centuries from the Wars of the Roses to the accession of the Hanoverians. This expedition through some of the important years in British history overflows with explosive family dynamics, power struggles that would determine dynastic succession, and the eruption of overlooked voices from the past—particularly those of the Cromwell women—that determined the family’s fate.
Family mattered above all else to Thomas and Oliver Cromwell. Without understanding the entire dynasty, however, one can never understand their impact on Britain and the world. Miranda Malins’ THE HOUSE OF CROMWELL is the first, complete history of the most unique, disruptive, creative and controversial family to rule Britain.
NEVER TOO MUCH by Angela Garbes
By her mid-forties Angela Garbes had built a good life. She was a successful author with a loving husband, two kids, and a thriving community. Her writing on motherhood was hailed as urgent and groundbreaking by peers and critics. Internally, though, she was consumed by feelings of unworthiness, professional pressure, fragmented memories she’d rather not confront, and a substance use habit that was no longer tenable.
As the first generation daughter of Filipino immigrants, Garbes had learned how to be the type of daughter her family needed, translating American customs to her hardworking parents and assimilating herself into her rural surroundings. As a latchkey kid of the 1980s, she learned that big feelings were an inconvenience and external achievement offered a clear path to approval. She found solace in tv, books, pop culture, and carefree visits to the Philippines, all the while burying truths that threatened family happiness. Thus a child who knew how to be everything to everyone without knowing herself became an adult who found relief and belonging in alcohol and cocaine, coping mechanisms that morphed into an addiction that poisoned the joys and responsibilities of mothering and daily life.
NEVER TOO MUCH is the story of Garbes’s recovery, and an honest examination of the forces that landed her there. It is also the story of an artist becoming herself and a fierce excavation of youth from the vantage of midlife. Readers are invited on her journey to see the way motherhood, relationships, and aging collide with generational trauma, abuse, and the search to reclaim identity. Garbes does the exhilarating, terrifying, and liberating work of confronting her past to know herself, this time on her own terms.
For readers of Leslie Jamison, Claire Dederer, Meaghan O’Connell, and Cathy Park Hong, NEVER TOO MUCH is Garbes’s most personal work yet, and her most unforgettable.
As the first generation daughter of Filipino immigrants, Garbes had learned how to be the type of daughter her family needed, translating American customs to her hardworking parents and assimilating herself into her rural surroundings. As a latchkey kid of the 1980s, she learned that big feelings were an inconvenience and external achievement offered a clear path to approval. She found solace in tv, books, pop culture, and carefree visits to the Philippines, all the while burying truths that threatened family happiness. Thus a child who knew how to be everything to everyone without knowing herself became an adult who found relief and belonging in alcohol and cocaine, coping mechanisms that morphed into an addiction that poisoned the joys and responsibilities of mothering and daily life.
NEVER TOO MUCH is the story of Garbes’s recovery, and an honest examination of the forces that landed her there. It is also the story of an artist becoming herself and a fierce excavation of youth from the vantage of midlife. Readers are invited on her journey to see the way motherhood, relationships, and aging collide with generational trauma, abuse, and the search to reclaim identity. Garbes does the exhilarating, terrifying, and liberating work of confronting her past to know herself, this time on her own terms.
For readers of Leslie Jamison, Claire Dederer, Meaghan O’Connell, and Cathy Park Hong, NEVER TOO MUCH is Garbes’s most personal work yet, and her most unforgettable.