The Charleston scandal / Pamela Hart.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford [England] : Isis, Aurora, 2021Edition: Large print editionDescription: 414 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781787826892Subject(s): Actresses -- Fiction | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | Nobility -- Fiction | Scandals -- Fiction | Nineteen twenties -- Fiction | London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Large type books. Summary: London, 1920s: Kit Linton, a privileged young Australian aiming to become a star, arrives in the city to find the Jazz Age in full swing. Cast in a West End play opposite another young hopeful, Canadian Zeke Gardiner, she dances blithely into the heady lifestyle of English high society and the London theatre set, from No묠Coward to Fred Astaire and his sister, Adele. When Kit is photographed dancing the Charleston alongside the Prince of Wales, she finds herself at the centre of a major scandal, sending the Palace into damage control and Kit to her aristocratic English relatives - and into the arms of the hedonistic Lord Henry Carleton. Amid the excesses of the Roaring Twenties, both Zeke and Kit are faced with temptations - and make choices that will alter the course of their lives forever.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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London, 1920s: Kit Linton, a privileged young Australian aiming to become a star, arrives in the city to find the Jazz Age in full swing. Cast in a West End play opposite another young hopeful, Canadian Zeke Gardiner, she dances blithely into the heady lifestyle of English high society and the London theatre set, from No묠Coward to Fred Astaire and his sister, Adele. When Kit is photographed dancing the Charleston alongside the Prince of Wales, she finds herself at the centre of a major scandal, sending the Palace into damage control and Kit to her aristocratic English relatives - and into the arms of the hedonistic Lord Henry Carleton. Amid the excesses of the Roaring Twenties, both Zeke and Kit are faced with temptations - and make choices that will alter the course of their lives forever.
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