num_pages: 512
description: Laurie Graham's new novel is the fictional diary of Maybell Brumby, a wealthy American widow who arrives in London in 1932 and discovers that an old school friend is in town; Bessie Wallis Warfield, now Mrs Ernest Simpson. Maybell and Wally are made for one another. The one has money and a foothold in good society, courtesy of a sister who married well. The other has ruthless ambition and enough energy to power the National Grid. Before the year is out Wally has begun her seduction of the Prince of Wales, and as she clambers towards the throne she makes sure Maybell and her cheque book are always close at hand. So Maybell becomes an eye-witness to the Abdication Crisis. From her perch in Carlton Gardens, home of her influential brother-in-law Lord Melhuish, she has the perfect vantage point for observing the anxious, changing allegiances for and against Queen Wally, and the political contours of pre-war London.
language: English
title: Gone with the Windsors Hardcover Laurie Graham
titlecomplete: Gone with the Windsors Hardcover Laurie Graham
genres: Fiction, Historical, British Literature, Humor, Chick Lit, Novels, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, World War II
ratings_count: 853
publisher: Fourth Estate