Product Description

Southampton, 1954. Bryony Travis is the daughter of Dan Travis, a second-hand car dealer who also deals in stolen goods. An avid reader of Tatler magazine, Bryony longs to escape her father's shady associates and meet sophisticated people with good manners. When a wealthy barrister buys a car from her father, she is introduced to his handsome son, James Hargreaves. Through James, Bryony steps up into the high society circles which she has always yearned to be part of and has a fine time, going to Ascot, dining at the Savoy. However, she soon gets a shock when she discovers that the aristocracy and her father's gangland friends aren't as different as she'd imagined...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #466511 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

About the Author
June Tate was born in Southampton. After leaving school, she worked as a hairdresser on the cruise ships the Queen Mary and the Mauritania where she met many Hollywood film stars. She lived briefly in Portugal after her marriage to an airline pilot, before returning home to settle in Sussex. June has two adult daughters.

Customer Reviews

A gripping story
The story grips from the start. June Tate has conjured up a cast of interesting and empathetic characters, especially with her heroine, Bryony, wonderfully independent and able to cope in a man's world - in this case a sometimes colourful, sometimes underground, but always fascinating world. We want to find out what happens to these people and so we have to keep turning the pages... This author is a born storyteller who simply goes from strength to strength. I enjoyed it immensely.