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Charlotte Bingham comes from a literary family - her father sold a story to H. G. Wells when he was only seventeen - and Charlotte wrote her autobiography, CORONET AMONG THE WEEDS, at the age of nineteen. Since then, she has written comedy and drama series, films and plays for both England and America with her husband, the actor and playwright Terence Brady. Her other published novels are the highly acclaimed bestsellers THE WIND OFF THE SEA, THE CHESTNUT TREE, SUMMERTIME, THE SEASON, THE BLUE NOTE, THE LOVE KNOT, THE KISSING GARDEN, LOVE SONG, TO HEAR A NIGHTINGALE, THE BUSINESS, IN SUNSHINE OR IN SHADOW, STARDUST, NANNY, CHANGE OF HEART, which won the 1994 Romantic Novel of the Year Award, DEBUTANTES, THE NIGHTINGALE SINGS, GRAND AFFAIR, THE CHESTNUT TREE, THE WIND OFF THE SEA and THE MOON AT MIDNIGHT, DAUGHTERS OF EDEN and the forthcoming THE HOUSE OF FLOWERS.
Imagine a fictional version of Bletchley Park. Imagine England 1941. For backroom boys and girls, fraternization is not encouraged but with Hitler due to invade any day emotions are running on overdrive. Not simply the de-coding and infiltration into Fascist circles but clandestine missions in Europe beckon. Who will go? Who might return? Kate, or mad Irishman Eugene with whom she is in love? How about Marjorie, suspicious of his blarney? Poppy, poised to marry Scott, wants only to live in the House of Flowers. Lily, with a guilt to expiate, could well be a danger. Guilt is not good news for an agent in the field. Worse still, it seems there's a serpent in the grass of Eden Park, a double agent at work. After a lifetime of writing best sellers Bingham pulls another corker out of the hat. Secrets, lies and spies, someone is certainly keeping something under theirs. (Kirkus UK)
