Thank you Tania for your hospitality on Tuesday, it was a lovely evening – sorry we were so late!

The next book to read is the Golden Prince and it’s 440 pages so please buy it soon and start reading!  The next meeting is therefore 6 wks away – Tuesday 26th June and will be at Kate’s. 

The July meeting will be on 17th and I will send a separate email with choices for a short book, as there will only be 3 weeks between the two meetings. 

The read over summer will be Little Stranger, Sarah Waters and the discussion for that can be in September, so lots of time to read that one!    M x

Edward VIII became notorious for abandoning the throne for Mrs Simpson, but in the summer of 1911 he was a prince straight from the pages of a fairy-tale. Raised by the harsh disciplinarian King George V and his unfeeling Queen Mary, the prince longed for the warmth that had been deprived of him.  The high society Houghton girls’ lives however, were full of fun, both at their magnificent family seat Snowberry, and at the whirlwind of glamorous parties which punctuated their lives. When a moment of serendipity brings Edward and Lily Houghton together, the pressures of a stuffy court are replaced with the lightness that Edward has dreamt of.  But a future monarch could not choose his own Queen, and even an enduring love might falter under the furious gaze of a King. Could the devotion of Edward and Lily triumph against him and the impending doom of World War I? Or would they bow to the inevitable and set in train events that could bring down the Crown, and change the course of history forever?