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A young womans extraordinary journey of selfdiscovery and an intimate meditation on what it takes to find our place in the world

I used to believe the world had been created for me every stone and grain of sand As I grew older I began to think of myself as something tacked on to the edge

1939 London From McPhails Passage to Kensingtons Grand Palace Hotel Rose Dunbar is evacuated from her humble home on the Rock of Gibraltar and dropped into a chaotic city of falling bombs perplexing class rules and bad weather Despite being flagrantly foreign to the locals she becomes an efficient gobetween for the upperclass ladies helping out with the war effort and her own tribe of noisy displaced families

It is only when she is shifted to the countryside to become secretary to the plainspeaking and sightless Major Inchbold that Roses dizzying journey to womanhood will become more surreal than ever as she drinks tea at the vicarage shields her best friend from abuse and stands up for the lower orders But Roses greatest dilemma is yet to come as she must decide where her home and her heart really lies

In Anne Youngsons wry and sublimely understated prose this unique and beautiful story of love class and belonging is also a profound and intimate meditation on what it takes to find our place in the world

Praise for ANNE YOUNGSON

Tender wise and moving Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to cherish JOHN BOYNE
Insightful emotionally acute and absorbing DAILY EXPRESS
Beautiful and affecting NINA STIBBE

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