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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a story of war and desire set in South London's dark and dirty streets during WWI.From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel1916. Pretty Eithne Clay runs a ramshackle South London boarding house with the help of her teenage son, Ralph, and their maid, Winnie. Struggling to keep herself, her lodgers, and her son going as every day life vanishes in the face of war, Eithne's world is transformed by the arrival of Mr Turk, the virile, carnal, carnivorous local butcher who falls passionately in love with her. As the house bursts to life with the electricity - metaphorical and real - he brings, dark secrets come to light. Struggling to keep herself, her lodgers, and her son going as every day life vanishes in the face of war, Eithnes world is transformed by the arrival of Mr Turk, the virile, carnal, carnivorous local butcher who falls passionately in love with her. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780099507123
Book Description paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG. Seller Inventory # 9780099507123
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. IN THE DARK.Moggach, Deborah.Condition.New, Does have a little storage damage. Seller Inventory # 005773
Book Description Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Set with a War in background, this is a story containing several characters who are all in the dark, with their dreams, secrets and fantasies. Electric light, new to their world, may be a boon but it reveals both grime and secrets. Seller Inventory # B9780099507123
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 320 pages. 7.80x5.12x0.79 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # __0099507129
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Book Description Condition: New. 2008. Paperback. Set with a War in background, this is a story containing several characters who are all in the dark, with their dreams, secrets and fantasies. Electric light, new to their world, may be a boon but it reveals both grime and secrets. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230. . . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780099507123
Book Description Condition: New. 2008. Paperback. Set with a War in background, this is a story containing several characters who are all in the dark, with their dreams, secrets and fantasies. Electric light, new to their world, may be a boon but it reveals both grime and secrets. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780099507123
Book Description Softcover. Condition: New. About the Author Deborah Moggach is the author of sixteen successful novels including most recently These Foolish Things and the best-selling Tulip Fever. She wrote the screenplays for the film of Pride and Prejudice and TVs acclaimed Love in a Cold Climate.From the Hardcover edition. Product Description Historical, domestic and sexy like Moggachs best-selling Tulip Fever, this is a tantalizing, page-turning story set in South Londons dark and dirty streets during WWI.1916: Pretty young Eithne Clay runs a shabby-genteel South London boarding house while her husband is off at the War. Theres Ralph, her fourteen-year old son, and Winnie the young maid, a homely, goodhearted country girl, and the lodgers, of course, a curious but necessary burden. They include blind Alwyne Flyte, communist and cynic, victim of a gas attack in the trenches. When the dreaded telegram arrives at the house, things turn from difficult to desperate for the two young women.Then along comes the butcher, Neville Turk, big handsome ladies man, irresistible for his meat, money and brutish confidence, who throws flighty Eithne into a turmoil but has sinister plans of his own. Winnie and the blind lodger, meanwhile, conduct a strange, erotic liaison of their own. And youn. Seller Inventory # DADAX0099507129