Abdication
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Juliet Nicolson
Edition: 1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781451658835; 9781451664799; 9781451658842
Subjects: Secrets; Social life and customs; Aristocracy (Social class); London (England); Fiction
Description: In a tale set against a backdrop of pre-World War II turbulence in England and Edward VIII's scandalous affair, a fatherless chauffeur shares an undeclared love with a complex Oxford undergraduate, a housekeeper hides her Nazi sympathies and a woman struggles with escalating tensions in her friendship with Wallace Simpson.