The Girl From The Savoy

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Addictive, charming and gleaming with Jazz Age glitz The Lady
The fabulous new novel from the author of The Girl Who Came Home
Dolly Lane is a dreamer; a downtrodden maid who longs to dance on the London stage, but the outbreak of war takes everything from her: Teddy, the man she loves and her hopes of a better life.

When she secures employment as a chambermaid at Londons grandest hotel, The Savoy, Dollys proximity to the dazzling guests makes her yearn for a life beyond the grey drudgery she was born into. Her fortunes take an unexpected turn when she responds to an unusual newspaper advert and finds herself thrust into the heady atmosphere of Londons glittering theatre scene and into the sphere of the celebrated actress, Loretta May, and her brother, Perry.

All three are searching for something, yet the aftermath of war has cast a dark shadow over them all. A brighter future is tantalisingly close but can a girl like Dolly ever truly leave her past behind

Reviews

Enormously enjoyable rags to riches tale full of 1920s glamour, jazz and delicious period detail Red Magazine

Sumptuous, gorgeous, authentic and surprising, Hazel Gaynor has written another hit. Sunday Independent

Gorgeously written Irish Independent

Peopled with unforgettable charactersOnce begun, I dare you to put it down. Kathleen Tessaro, author of The Perfume Collector

'A stunningly evocative story so vividly told I loved every gorgeously written page of it.' Claudia Carroll

Unputdownable. The characters jumped from the pages, filling my head with extraordinary moments. Carmel Harrington

Praise for Hazel Gaynor:
A beautifully imagined novel rich in historic detail and with authentic, engaging characters I loved this book. Kate Kerrigan, author of The Dress

Author Bio

Hazel Gaynor is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of A Memory of Violets and The Girl Who Came Home, for which she received the 2015 RNA Historical Novel of the Year award. Her third novel, The Girl from the Savoy, was an Irish Times and Globe & Mail Canada bestseller, and was shortlisted for the BGE Irish Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year. In 2017, she has published The Cottingley Secret and Last Christmas in Paris. Hazel was selected by US Library Journal as one of 'Ten Big Breakout Authors' for 2015 and her work has been translated into several languages. Hazel lives in Ireland with her husband and two children.