The Ladies of Hanover Square Author:Rona Randall When her scandalous Aunt Dulcima sweeps into Deborah Yorke's life, its whole course changes. The orphaned daughter of a country parson, Deborah is whisked off to London, where her vivacious aunt is the hostess of a fashionable card salon at her house in Hanover Square. A former Gaiety Girl and famous professional beauty, Dulcima is now seeki... more »ng the security of marriage. With the help of her niece who, she believes, will lend her campaign respectability, she hopes to get her wealthy lover, Lord Ashleigh, to wed her, and so gain acceptance into Society and provide the heir to Kingsmere, his ancestral home in Sussex.
Three generations of beautiful English women in turn enjoy the limelight of London society, finding passion, intrigue, and rivalry, as the splendor of the Edwardian era gives way to the bleakness of the Great War.« less