ASIN: B06ZZWZ5GF
Publisher: Quire Books
Pages: 498
'a fast-paced adventure peopled with ruthless villains and feisty heroines whose exploits grab the imagination and add suspense and excitement to a historical gem." --Lancashire Evening PostWinter, 1661.Shy Sadie Appleby has never left her rural home. But one night she is rudely awoken by her older and bolder sister, Ella, who has robbed her employer and is on the run.Together they flee to London, deperate to lose themselves in the teeming city. Ella, seduced by the glitter and glamour of city life, sets her sights on flamboyant man-about-town, Jay Whitgift, owner of Ther Gilded Lily -- a beauty parlour for the wives of the London gentry.But nothing in the city is what it seems, least of all Jay Whitgift. And soon the sisters are threatened by a menace more sinister than the law.Set in a brilliantly realised 17th Century London, The Gilded Lily is a novel about beauty and desire, about ...
