Talk of the Town
By: Joan Smith
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: ISIS
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780753177266
Subjects: Aunts; Fiction; Divorced women; Extortion; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: Daphne's visit to her Aunt Effie was allowed with much misgiving. Effie had once been the toast of London, her beauty attracting men of all kinds -- husbands, sons, brothers, and fathers. But her first marriage had ended in a scandalous divorce and the notoriety forced her to flee. Now Effie planned to publish her memoirs and half of London was turning pale with terror. Everyone wanted to buy her silence and suddenly she was being courted by the very people who had shunned her. As for Daphne, when she crossed swords with a certain young duke claiming she was blackmailing his family, she had no inkling of what was in store&#x2026;
Notes: Originally published: New York: Walker, 1979; London: Robert Hale, 2006.