Before I met you

Title:

Before I met you

Author:

Jewell, Lisa.

ISBN:

9780099559535

Personal Author:

Jewell, Lisa.

Physical Description:

577 pages cm

General Note:

Originally published: London: Century, 2012.

Abstract:

London, 1920. Arlette works in Liberty by day, and by night is caughty up in a glamorous whirl of parties, clubs, cocktails and jazz. But when tragedy strikes she flees the city, never to return. Over half a century later, in the grungy mid-'90s, her graddaughter Betty arrives in London. She can't wait to begin her new life. But before she can do so, she must find the mysterious woman named in her grandmother's will. What she doesn't know is that her search will uncover the heartbreaking secret that changed her grandmother's life, and might also change hers for ever.

Subject Term:

Nineteen nineties -- Fiction.

Nineteen twenties -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

London (England) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Format:

Books

Document ID:

SD_ILS:1393804

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Summary

London, 1920. Arlette works in Liberty by day, and by night is caught up in a glamorous whirl of parties, clubs, cocktails and jazz. But when tragedy strikes she flees the city, never to return.

Over half a century later, in the grungy mid-90s, her granddaughter Betty arrives in London.

She can't wait to begin her new life. But before she can do so, she must find the mysterious woman named in her grandmother's will.

What she doesn't know is that her search will uncover the heart-breaking secret that changed her grandmother's life, and might also change hers forever . . .

Author Notes

Lisa Jewell lives in London with her husband and their cat.