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Miss Aldridge Regrets
By (author):
Louise Hare
Louise Hare
Imprint:
BerkleyISBN:
9780593439258Product Form:
Hardcover
Hardcover
English
Audience:
General Trade
Jul 05, 2022
$36.00 CAD
Active
Dimensions:
9.28in x 6.31 x 1.24 in | 1.28 lbPage Count:
368 pages
Berkley
FICTION / Historical / General
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The glittering RMS Queen Mary.
A nightclub singer on the run.
An aristocratic family with secrets worth killing for.
London, 1936. Lena Aldridge wonders if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn’t worked out. Instead, she’s stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club in Soho, and her married lover has just left her. But Lena has always had a complicated life, one shrouded in mystery as a mixed-race girl passing for white in a city unforgiving of her true racial heritage.
She’s feeling utterly hopeless until a stranger offers her the chance of a lifetime: a starring role on Broadway and a first-class ticket on the Queen Mary bound for New York. After a murder at the club, the timing couldn’t be better, and Lena jumps at the chance to escape England. But death follows her onboard when an obscenely wealthy family draws her into their fold just as one among them is killed in a chillingly familiar way. As Lena navigates the Abernathy’s increasingly bizarre family dynamic, she realizes that her greatest performance won’t be for an audience, but for her life.
With seductive glamor, simmering family drama, and dizzying twists, Louise Hare makes her beguiling US debut.
Story Locale: London & aboard The Queen Mary, 1936
A nightclub singer on the run.
An aristocratic family with secrets worth killing for.
London, 1936. Lena Aldridge wonders if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn’t worked out. Instead, she’s stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club in Soho, and her married lover has just left her. But Lena has always had a complicated life, one shrouded in mystery as a mixed-race girl passing for white in a city unforgiving of her true racial heritage.
She’s feeling utterly hopeless until a stranger offers her the chance of a lifetime: a starring role on Broadway and a first-class ticket on the Queen Mary bound for New York. After a murder at the club, the timing couldn’t be better, and Lena jumps at the chance to escape England. But death follows her onboard when an obscenely wealthy family draws her into their fold just as one among them is killed in a chillingly familiar way. As Lena navigates the Abernathy’s increasingly bizarre family dynamic, she realizes that her greatest performance won’t be for an audience, but for her life.
With seductive glamor, simmering family drama, and dizzying twists, Louise Hare makes her beguiling US debut.
Story Locale: London & aboard The Queen Mary, 1936
WON AT AUCTION: We scooped up two books from this highly commercial, talented author
US DEBUT: Louise’e first novel was published to much acclaim in the UK, but Miss Aldridge Regrets will mark her US debut
IMPORTANT THEMES: Miss Aldridge is a multiracial woman passing for white, and Louise Hare, who is also a multiracial British woman, explores this with texture and insight
UK PUBLISHER: HarperCollins UK will be publishing simultaneously
SERIES POTENTIAL: We bought two books so we can expand this into a series centered around the complex character of Miss Aldridge, set in the glamor of the international nightclub scene of the late 1930s
Marketing: Online advertising
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Influencer outreach
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Library marketing campaign
Discussion guide available online
Book Club kit
E-mail marketing campaign
Feature on PRH.com
Publicity: Select author appearances
National radio publicity
National print publicity
National podcast interview campaign
Online publicity campaign
Blog campaign
NPR interviews
Pitch author op-eds and essays
Author Website: www.louisehare.com
Pre-publication consumer outreach
Social media campaign
Influencer outreach
Consumer sweepstakes
Library marketing campaign
Discussion guide available online
Book Club kit
E-mail marketing campaign
Feature on PRH.com
Publicity: Select author appearances
National radio publicity
National print publicity
National podcast interview campaign
Online publicity campaign
Blog campaign
NPR interviews
Pitch author op-eds and essays
Author Website: www.louisehare.com
"In Lena Aldridge, Hare has created a heroine who practically leaps off the page with her sharp wit and incandescence. Throw in a Jazz Age ocean crossing on the Queen Mary and series of diabolical murders that would make Agatha Christie proud, and I was done for, turning the pages late into the night. Irresistible and smart."
—Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue
“Fiendishly plotted with more twists than a corkscrew, this nineteen thirties novel set on board the Queen Mary is a real page turner.”
—Rhys Bowen, New York Times Bestselling author of the Royal Spyness series
“Full of intrigue and tension, Miss Aldridge Regrets is an expertly plotted, beautifully set novel. With every character hiding something, Louise Hare builds the story in a way that is compelling and completely unputdownable.”
—Nekesa Afia, author of Dead Dead Girls
“With vividly drawn characters, this exciting blend of murder mystery and historical romance is hard to put down once one starts reading.”—Library Journal
