Emily Hourican

The Glorious Guinness Girls: A story of the scandals and secrets of the famous society girls

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Produktbeschreibung

LOVE AFFAIRS, LIES, SCANDALS, SECRETS...

Aileen. Maureen. Oonagh. The private lives of the Glorious Guinness Girls fascinated a nation. But privilege always has its price...

Granddaughters of the first Earl of Iveagh, the three daughters of Ernest Guinness are glamorous society girls, skipping from party to party, the toast of Dublin and London. Darlings of the press, with not a care in the world.

But what beautiful ruins lie behind the glass of their privileged worlds? The love affairs, the scandals, the tragedies, the secrets...

Inspired by fascinating real events and a remarkable true story, from the the brittle glamour of 1920s London to the turmoil of Ireland's War of Independence, this dramatic, richly textured reading group novel takes us into the heart of a beautiful but often painful hidden world.

If you loved Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes' Belgravia, Paula McLain's The Paris Wife or Therese Anne Fowler's Z is for Zelda, you willadore The Golden Guinness Girls.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Headline / Headline Review
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 754046
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 127mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9781472274601
• ISBN-10: 1472274601
• Artikelnr.: 60936810

Autorenporträt

Emily Hourican is the author of nine novels and one book of non-fiction. Her first novel, The Privileged, was published in 2016, became an instant bestseller, and was short-listed for the Best Popular Fiction Award at the Irish Book Awards that year. She then published three more works of contemporary fiction, the last of which, The Outsider, is being developed as a six-part TV series with Treasure Films, with Emily as screenwriter, supported by Screen Ireland. In 2019 she began writing historical fiction, and has since published four acclaimed, best-selling historical novels based on the Guinness and Kennedy families. Emily is also an award-winning editor and journalist with the Sunday Independent, Ireland's biggest-selling newspaper.

Rezensionen

Fans of Downton Abbey will adore this, and it would be surprising if the book weren't made into a luscious mini-series THE SUNDAY TIMES