The Girl From the Savoy
A Novel
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · June 7, 2016
Presenting a dazzling new historical novel … The Girl From The Savoy is as sparkling as champagne and as thrilling as the era itself. ‘Sometimes life gives you cotton stockings.
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- Who it’s for
- A postwar London dreamer reaches toward the stage, where glamour and hard choices share the bill.
- Themes
- Postwar grief and loss, Class and social mobility, Ambition and self-reinvention
- Pacing
- Mixed
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Presenting a dazzling new historical novel … The Girl From The Savoy is as sparkling as champagne and as thrilling as the era itself. ‘Sometimes life gives you cotton stockings. Sometimes it gives you a Chanel gown …’ Dolly Lane is a dreamer; a downtrodden maid who longs to dance on the London stage, but her life has been fractured by the Great War.
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Memories of the soldier she loved, of secret shame and profound loss, by turns pull her back and spur her on to make a better life. When she finds employment as a chambermaid at London’s grandest hotel, The Savoy, Dolly takes a step closer to the glittering lives of the Bright Young Things who thrive on champagne, jazz and rebellion. Right now, she must exist on the fringes of power, wealth and glamor—she must remain invisible and unimportant. But her fortunes take an unexpected turn when she responds to a struggling songwriter’s advertisement for a ‘muse’ and finds herself thrust into London’s exhilarating theatre scene and into the lives of celebrated actress, Loretta May, and her brother, Perry. Loretta and Perry may have the life Dolly aspires to, but they too are searching for something. Now, at the precipice of the life she has and the one she longs for, the girl from The Savoy must make difficult choices: between two men; between two classes, between everything she knows and everything she dreams of. A brighter future is tantalizingly close—but can a girl like Dolly ever truly leave her past behind?
Ambition in the Spotlight
A postwar London dreamer reaches toward the stage, where glamour and hard choices share the bill.
Come here for
- A maid’s climb from the hotel’s margins toward theatre life
- Jazz-age glamour threaded with postwar loss and longing
Expect
- A historical novel shaped by ambition, class and difficult choices
- Romance and theatre-world sparkle, with the past still in view
Where it sits
| 20th-Century Historical Romance | 78% |
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| 20th-Century English Fiction | 42% |
| Women's Fiction | 33% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- American Plays
- Historical Fiction
- Literary Fiction
- Regency Romance
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- 20th-Century Historical Romance
- Royal Romance
- Coming-of-Age
- Authors
- Hazel Gaynor
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- June 7, 2016
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Postwar grief and loss · Class and social mobility · Ambition and self-reinvention
- Reading lane
- American Plays