The Milliner's Secret
Author: Natalie Meg Evans
Format: Paperback, 560 pages, 128mm x 202mm, 440 g
Published: 2015, Quercus Publishing, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
June 1940. As Paris, the City of Light, approaches its darkest hour, a young woman treads the line between survival and collaboration.
Londoner Cora Masson has reinvented herself as Coralie de Lirac, using a false claim to aristocratic birth to launch herself as a fashionable milliner. When the Germans invade, the influence of a high-ranking lover saves her business. But in striking this pact, she retains her position as designer to a style-hungry elite, but becomes hostage to a life of plenty in a city that is starving to death. As one by one her friends 'disappear' to unknown fates, will Coralie be brave enough to abandon her passion and join the Parisian Resistance?Natalie Meg Evans was winner of the 2014 LoveStories 'Best Historical Read' award, winner of the 2015 Public Book Awards and shortlisted for the 2015 Romance Writers of America (RWA) RITA Awards and the 2015 LoveStories Historical fiction awards. She writes full-time from her house in rural north Suffolk.
June 1940. As Paris, the City of Light, approaches its darkest hour, a young woman treads the line between survival and collaboration.
Londoner Cora Masson has reinvented herself as Coralie de Lirac, using a false claim to aristocratic birth to launch herself as a fashionable milliner. When the Germans invade, the influence of a high-ranking lover saves her business. But in striking this pact, she retains her position as designer to a style-hungry elite, but becomes hostage to a life of plenty in a city that is starving to death. As one by one her friends 'disappear' to unknown fates, will Coralie be brave enough to abandon her passion and join the Parisian Resistance?Natalie Meg Evans was winner of the 2014 LoveStories 'Best Historical Read' award, winner of the 2015 Public Book Awards and shortlisted for the 2015 Romance Writers of America (RWA) RITA Awards and the 2015 LoveStories Historical fiction awards. She writes full-time from her house in rural north Suffolk.