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Miss Aldridge regrets : a novel / Louise Hare.

ISBN: 9780593439258
ISBN: 0593439252
ISBN: 9780593439272
ISBN: 0593439279
Physical Description: 360 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2022]
Copyright: &copy;2022

Summary:

The glittering RMS Queen Mary. A nightclub singer on the run. An aristocratic family with secrets worth killing for. London, 1936. Lena Aldridge wonders if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn't worked out. Instead, she's stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club in Soho, and her married lover just left her. But Lena has always had a complicated life, one shrouded in mystery as a mixed-race girl passing for white in a city unforgiving of her true racial heritage. She's feeling utterly hopeless until a stranger offers her the chance of a lifetime: a starring role on Broadway and a first-class ticket on the Queen Mary, bound for New York. After a murder at the club, the timing couldn't be better, and Lena jumps at the chance to escape England. But death follows her on board when an obscenely wealthy family draws her into its fold just as one among them is killed in a chillingly familiar way. As Lena navigates the Abernathys' increasingly bizarre family dynamic, she realizes that her greatest performance won't be for an audience but for her life. -- Provided by publisher.