A Far Cry from Kensington Romance_Gift_Guide Longlisted for the 2020 Women's

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A Far Cry from Kensington Romance_Gift_Guide Longlisted for the 2020 Women'sThe fraying fringes of 1950s literary London Rich and slim, the celebrated author Nancy Hawkins takes us in hand and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar London, where she spends her days working for a mad, near bankrupt publisher (of very good books) and her nights dispensing advice at her small South Kensington rooming house. Everywhere Mrs. Hawkins finds evil: with aplomb, however, she confidently sets about putting things to order, to