These three are hard to shock and difficult to take unawares, and they have all endured experiences that make them want to live. The tone is set by Nellie, a woman who had the will and the smarts to create herself, and two veterans of the trenches-Gwendolen and Nellie’s son Niven, who survived deployment to the Somme. While the story unfolds over a period of weeks and is almost entirely contained to London, it sprawls across social classes and gives voice to a glorious miscellany of characters. And Gwendolen Kelling-currently on leave from her job as a librarian in York, lately a nurse serving in the Great War-has just emerged as something of a wild card. DCI John Frobisher is determined to bring her to justice. Would-be usurpers have infiltrated her inner circle. Just released from prison, she finds herself beset on all sides. Nellie Coker presides over an empire of five nightclubs catering to a diverse clientele and a brood of six children of various talents and aptitudes. The author of Big Sky (2019) and Transcription (2018) takes readers on a tour of London’s post–World War I demimonde.
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