Ask Alice - Taylor, D J
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Glamorous Alice Keach is one of 1930s London's foremost hostesses. Despite humble American origins she has secured her place in high society through marriage to one of England's wealthiest bachelors. But Alice has a secret. Its roots run years back and miles away to the dust-blasted prairies of Kansas. It corncerns a lost little boy left under the haphazard guidance of an eccentric uncle. Now a visit from America looks set to blow apart Alice's glittering pre-eminence forever.

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Glamorous Alice Keach is one of 1930s London's foremost hostesses. Despite humble American origins she has secured her place in high society through marriage to one of England's wealthiest bachelors. But Alice has a secret. Its roots run years back and miles away to the dust-blasted prairies of Kansas. It corncerns a lost little boy left under the haphazard guidance of an eccentric uncle. Now a visit from America looks set to blow apart Alice's glittering pre-eminence forever.
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D.J. Taylor was born in Norwich in 1960. He is a novelist, critic and acclaimed biographer, whose biography of Thackeray was a critically-acclaimed success and whose Orwell: The Life won the Whitbread Biography prize in 2003. His most recent books are Kept: A Victorian Mystery (a Publishers Weekly Book of the Year) and Derby Day: A Victorian Mystery. He is also the author of Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940, and the novel At the Chime of a City Clock.