The Golden Hour

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I’m not going to lie, I did get confused a few times throughout the book, but each time I was able to figure out whatever it was that I was confused about.

Of course, there is some romance in the book as she crosses paths with the mysterious Benedict Thorpe. There she meets a young Londoner named Wilfred Thorpe, interrupting his grand tour of the continent to recover from pneumonia—but never to recover from meeting Elfriede. But, all of the brilliantly developed individuals voices seem to come right off the page and live with you while you listen to their stories.I read a biography on her not that long ago and they are both fascinating people although not so much in a good way. But the Bahamas "feel" and the Lulu (she was a 1960 plus "eyes" put into an earlier "reality") character with her completely double standard morality- made me laugh. Beatriz Williams is the bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Her Last Flight, The Summer Wives, and The Golden Hour, as well as All the Ways We Said Goodbye, cowritten with Lauren Willig and Karen White.

He finds relief through photography and by making some new friends, one of whom lives on a farm and introduces Manuel to rural life and group activities in a club which is not 4-H (*cough*but is 4-H*cough*). Smith also succeeds in her representation of panic attacks, draining all color from the frame in surreal passages that break the camera rectangle into chaotic fragments of lines to adorn the image and enhance the anxious tone. If you’re interested in a story about what the Duke and Duchess of Windsor did during their stint in the Bahamas and their Nazi sympathies, look elsewhere. The Duke of Windsor, having abdicated the English throne, was Nassau's governor from 1940 to 1945, and during these years, the city was rife with greed, racial tension, and murder. To a portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, this historical novel adds two grand fictional passions: one beginning in Switzerland in 1900, the other in the Bahamas in 1941, both involving a ginger-haired Brit named Thorpe.The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives and A Certain Age creates a dazzling epic of World War II-era Nassau - a hotbed of spies, traitors, and the most infamous couple of the age, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. In both time periods I really got a sense for the landscape and what these women were seeing and going through.

His days are a lonely, latchkey monotony until he’s teamed with his classmates, Sebastian and Caysha, for a group project.Clever and observant she learns who are the players in Nassau from the rich and infamous from the watering holes, the Windsor's functions, and to the Red Cross events. The slow weaving of Elfriede and Lulu may feel meandering for a while, I thought the latter half started to drag a bit but it was still curiously interesting to see how the author ultimately ended up placing all the characters to culminate in the ending.