The Guide Movement continues to thrive today as an essential youth organization for young girls, offering a place for them to practise teamwork and leadership skills, to explore a wide range of interests, and to develop a sense of confidence and belief in their potential. In a world in which we still strive for equality for women, Girl Guides is perhaps more important and relevant than ever.
As Juliette Gordon Low once said, ‘The work of today is the history of tomorrow and we are its makers.’
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1838: when a terrible storm blows up off the Northumberland coast, Grace Darling, the lighthouse-keeper’s daughter, knows there is little chance of survival for the passengers on the small ship battling the waves. But her actions set in motion an incredible feat of bravery that echoes down the century.
1938: when nineteen-year-old Matilda Emmerson sails across the Atlantic to New England, she faces an uncertain future. Staying with her reclusive relative, Harriet Flaherty, a lighthouse keeper on Rhode Island, Matilda discovers a discarded portrait that opens a window on to a secret that will change her life forever.
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1917: When two young cousins, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright from Cottingley, England, announce they have photographed fairies at the bottom of the garden, their parents are astonished. But when the great novelist, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, endorses the photographs’ authenticity, the girls become a sensation; their discovery offering something to believe in amid a world ravaged by war.
One hundred years later: When Olivia Kavanagh finds an old manuscript and a photograph in her late grandfather’s bookshop she becomes fascinated by the story of the two young girls who mystified the world. As Olivia is drawn into events a century ago, she becomes aware of the past and the present intertwining, blurring her understanding of what is real and what is imagined. As she begins to understand why a nation once believed in fairies, will Olivia find a way to believe in herself?
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Dolly Lane is a dreamer; a downtrodden maid who longs to dance on the London stage, but the outbreak of war takes everything from her: Teddy, the man she loves – and her hopes of a better life.
When she secures employment as a chambermaid at London’s grandest hotel, the Savoy, Dolly’s proximity to the dazzling guests makes her yearn for a life beyond the grey drudgery she was born into. Her fortunes take an unexpected turn when she responds to an unusual newspaper advert and finds herself thrust into the heady atmosphere of London’s glittering theatre scene and into the sphere of the celebrated actress, Loretta May, and her brother, Perry.
All three are searching for something, yet the aftermath of war has cast a dark shadow over them all.
A brighter future is tantalisingly close – but can a girl like Dolly ever truly leave her past behind?
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About the Author
Hazel Gaynor is an award-winning, New York Times, USA Today, and Irish Times bestselling author of historical fiction, including her debut The Girl Who Came Home, for which she received the 2015 RNA Historical Novel of the Year award. A Memory of Violets was a WHSmith Fresh Talent pick for spring 2015, The Girl from The Savoy was shortlisted for the 2016 Irish Book Awards, and The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter was shortlisted for the 2019 Historical Writers’ Association Gold Crown award. She is published in thirteen languages and nineteen countries.
Hazel is co-founder of the creative writing event, The Inspiration Project. Originally from Yorkshire, she now lives in Ireland with her husband and two children.
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Also by Hazel Gaynor
The Girl Who Came Home: A Novel of the Titanic
A Memory of Violets
The Girl From The Savoy
The Cottingley Secret
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter
With Heather Webb
Fall of Poppies
Last Christmas in Paris
Meet Me in Monaco
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