The secret guests : a novel / Benjamin Black.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Black, Benjamin, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Margaret, Princess, Countess of Snowdon, 1930-2002.

Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-2022.

World War, 1939-1945--Ireland--Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945.

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Ireland--Fiction.

Ireland.

Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-2022--Fiction.

Elizabeth.

Margaret, Princess, Countess of Snowdon, 1930-2002--Fiction.

Margaret.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Suspense fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Physical Description:

291 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020.

Summary:

"Ahead of the German Blitz during World War II, English parents from every social class sent their children to the countryside for safety, displacing more than three million young offspring. In The Secret Guests, the British royal family takes this evacuation a step further, secretly moving the princesses to the estate of the Duke of Edenmore in "neutral" Ireland. A female English secret agent, Miss Celia Nashe, and a young Irish detective, Garda Strafford, are assigned to watch over "Ellen" and "Mary" at Clonmillis Hall. But the Irish stable hand, the housemaid, the formidable housekeeper, the Duke himself, and other Irish townspeople, some of whom lost family to English gunshots during the War of Independence, go freely about their business in and around the great house. Soon suspicions about the guests' true identities percolate, a dangerous boredom sets in for the princesses, and, within and without Clonmillis acreage, passions as well as stakes rise."--Publisher's description.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781250133014

1250133017

OCLC:

1099196513