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The Paris Affair: The brand-new escapist novel from the nations favourite entertainer and bestselling author
By (Author) Anton Du Beke
Orion Publishing Co
Orion
13th February 2024
26th October 2023
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Saga fiction (family / generational sagas)
823.92
Hardback
496
Width 162mm, Height 236mm, Spine 42mm
740g
In the darkest days of war, a stranger will change everything.
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. 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. As dark secrets rise to the surface, the very heart of the Buckingham Hotel is under threat. Will tragedy strikeAnton 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.