It’s 1923 and London is a whirl of jazz, dancing and parties. Violet, Daisy,
Poppy and Rose Derrington are desperate to be part of it, but stuck in an
enormous crumbling house in the country, with no money and no fashionable
dresses, the excitement seems a lifetime away. Luckily the girls each have a
plan for escaping their humdrum country life: Rose wants to be a novelist,
Poppy a jazz musician and Daisy a famous film director. Violet, however, has
only one ambition: to become the perfect Debutante, so that she can go to
London and catch the eye of Prince George, the most eligible bachelor in the
country. But a house as big and old as Beech Grove Manor hides many secrets,
and Daisy is about to uncover one so huge it could ruin all their plans – ruin
everything – forever.
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About the Author
Cora Harrison worked as a head teacher before she decided to write her first
novel, and she has since published twenty-six children’s historical novels and
many books for adults. Cora lives on a farm near the Burren in the west of
Ireland.”