The Last Night in London
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London, 1939. Beautiful and ambitious Eva Harlow and her American best friend, Precious Dubose, are trying to make their way as fashion models. When Eva falls in love with Graham St. John, an aristocrat and Royal Air Force pilot, she can’t believe her luck—she’s getting everything she ever wanted. Then the Blitz devastates her world, and Eva finds herself slipping into a web of intrigue, spies, and secrets. As Eva struggles to protect her friendship with Precious and everything she holds dear, all it takes is one unwary moment to change their lives forever…
London, 2019. American journalist Maddie Warner, whose life has been marked by the tragic loss of her mother, travels to London to interview Precious about her life in pre-WWII London. Maddie has been careful to close herself off to others, but in Precious she recognizes someone whose grief rivals her own—but unlike Maddie, Precious hasn’t allowed it to crush her. Maddie finds herself drawn to both Precious and to Colin, her enigmatic surrogate nephew. As Maddie gets closer to her, she begins to unravel Precious’s haunting past—a story of friendship, betrayal, and the unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
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Karen White. (2021). The Last Night in London. Penguin Publishing Group.
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- New York Times bestselling author Karen White weaves a captivating story of friendship, love, and betrayal that moves between war-torn London during the Blitz and the present day.
London, 1939. Beautiful and ambitious Eva Harlow and her American best friend, Precious Dubose, are trying to make their way as fashion models. When Eva falls in love with Graham St. John, an aristocrat and Royal Air Force pilot, she can’t believe her luck—she’s getting everything she ever wanted. Then the Blitz devastates her world, and Eva finds herself slipping into a web of intrigue, spies, and secrets. As Eva struggles to protect her friendship with Precious and everything she holds dear, all it takes is one unwary moment to change their lives forever…
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White expands on her Walton, Ga., universe (Falling Home) to spin a dual-timeline WWII romance spiced with murky identities, intrigue, and betrayal. In 2019, freelance journalist Maddie Warner, a Walton native, travels to London to research an article about wartime fashion. She interviews 99-year-old Jeanne “Precious” Dubose, a distant relative, who modeled in London and Paris during the war, and unexpectedly encounters Colin Eliot, a friend and almost-lover from her study abroad year at Oxford, whose family has known Precious for decades. Colin loves Maddie, but she initially resists a relationship, uncertain how he’d fit into her future, since she can’t have children. In 1939, Precious’s flatmate and fellow model Eva Harlow falls in love with handsome and wealthy Graham St. John and hides her lower-class background, prompting a German acquaintance of Graham’s to blackmail Eva for information about Graham’s new duties as an RAF pilot. Eva confides to no one, but after German bombs fall on London in October 1940, the truth of Eva’s actions are exposed. The romance between Maddie and Colin unfolds with comfortable predictability as Maddie races to capture Precious’s story, and White drops heavy clues throughout about the links between past and present. None of this, though, will prevent her fans from inhaling this page-turning story. Agent: Amy Berkower, Writers House.
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In 1939, full of youth and optimism, Ethel Maltby has come to London to reinvent herself. She lives with her new friend Precious Dubose in a small flat they can barely afford, and the two young women model elegant fashion and socialize at lavish nightclubs. Hoping to fit into high society and leave her past behind, Ethel changes her name to Eva Harlow and plans to never look back. But the war soon takes everything from Eva, and she must reinvent herself once more to survive. Eighty years later, Maddie Warner travels to London to write an article about fashion icon Precious Dubose. When a past love is unexpectedly rekindled, Maddie denies her feelings and tries to focus on her writing instead. She soon discovers Precious' life story isn't what it seems, and works to unravel the truth about Precious and Eva at the start of WWII. Prolific author White (Dreams of Falling, 2018) intertwines the stories of two women, separated by generations but connected by grief, who both survive loss and reinvent themselves after tragedy.COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Alternating between 1939 and 2019, this novel about the Blitz has it all: intrigue, espionage, betrayal, and true love that spans the decades. In 1939, Eva Harlow and her American friend Precious Dubose work as models in a dress shop in London. In 2019, American Maddie Warner returns to London to interview 99-year-old Precious about her wardrobe, for British Vogue. But there's a small snag; Precious is the stand-in gran to Colin, the man Maddie left behind years ago. What isn't Precious telling Maddie? The secrets of her wartime years will slowly come to light, as Maddie and Colin reconnect over their research and realize that things are not always what they seem, past or present. This engaging novel has two strong story lines and compelling characters, as well as family drama across the United States--England divide in both eras. VERDICT Reminiscent in tone of the past/present romantic suspense of Lauren Willig's "Pink Carnation" series, White's ("Tradd Street" series) novel's wartime intrigue and contemporary romantic clash of characters will appeal to many. Recommended for readers who enjoyed Jennifer Robson's The Gown or Jeanne Mackin's The Last Collection.--Melanie Kindrachuk, Stratford P.L., Ont.
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