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Book Review…Miss Aldridge Regrets by Louise Hare The glittering RMS Queen Mary. A nightclub singer on the run. An aristocratic family with secrets worth killing for. Lena Aldridge wonders if life has passed her by. 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. She's feeling utterly hopeless until a stranger offers her the chance of a lifetime: a role on Broadway and a first-class ticket on the Queen Mary. After a murder at the club, the timing couldn't be better. But death follows her onboard a 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 bizarre family dynamic, she realizes that her greatest performance won't be for an audience, but for her life. A wonderful historical fiction that has a large mix of topics! Class difference, sex traffic, betrayal, cheating and racism. And a gripping whodunnit and a forbidden romance! With so much going on I can't think of a moment that I wasn't entertained! There's two timelines: the sea voyage on the Queen Mary in 1936, and events from a week before. It does take a little to get going but the tension and adventure builds and builds the closer they get to New York. It was entertaining and the writing was wonderful! #MissAldridgeRegrets #LouiseHare #books #BerkleyBooks #PenguinRandomHouse #read #bookreview #historicalmysteryread #booklover #readsta #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookishpost #bookrecommendation #instaread #instabook #instabookreview #bookish https://www.instagram.com/p/CgHUSoylqIl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Many thanks to Berkley for eARC. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Miss Aldridge Regrets is engaging historical crime mystery that revolves around Lena Aldridge, a showgirl in London Soho, finds herself amid murders and drama of upper class family when she has to leave London after the murder of her best friend’s husband and owner of the club she worked at. The plot is filled with glamor, mystery and drama that take place mostly on the ship, RMS Queen Mary while all the backstories of characters take place in London that mostly includes what happenes in Lena’s life a week ago and how that influences her to take role on Broadway and board the ship to NY. I loved layers in the story and the setting of Queen Mary. We see the class differences on the ship, how the floors was divided in classes, some people were allowed to explore certain levels while some were not, and how staff also behaved as per the class they dealt with was interesting to read. We also read the struggle of working class family, life in Soho through Lena’s past and prejudice of higher class through secondary characters and Abernathy family. Mystery is most interesting, well written filled with red herring. Climax is tense. I couldn’t guess the killer until this point. I’m also disappointed with the reasons motive of whole game. It didn’t make sense the way the killer changed thoughts and decisions which makes the end weird, implausible and questioning the morals and ethics that’s why it’s a 4 star from me. However, I could agree on one thing one has to put their own survival first when caught in situation like this so I don’t mind Lena’s decision in the end. Overall, this is intriguing, well written and fun historical murder mystery with many layers and perfect setting. * Swipe for check points * QOTD - which is your favorite historical mystery? . . . . . #MissAldridgeRegrets #LouiseHare #BerkleyBooks #HistoricalFiction #HistoricalFIctionlovers #Historicalfictionreader #20thcenturysetting #Historicalmystery #Crimemystery #murdermystery #historicalmurdermystery #bookreview #Bookreviewer #readersofig #bookblogging #bookbloggers #bookbloggersofig #BooksTeacupandReviews #indianbookstagram #bookishaesthetic https://www.instagram.com/p/CfrZ16ovc8n/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Book Review: This Lovely City by Louise Hare

This was a really enjoyable read. Based in 1950’s London. When we still needed help to rebuild the city after the blitz. This scheme is now known as Windrush, as the men and women came over on the Empire Windrush.

Lawrie Matthews and his friends, Aston, Sonny and Moses came over to the UK hoping to get jobs and make better lives for themselves. Except they didn’t get the welcome and jobs that they had been promised.

Lawrie eventually found himself a job as a postman. He found that he had to work twice as hard as his fellow colleagues just to keep his job. His days were long and he walked for miles delivering peoples mail.

He eventually found a room to rent closer to work and he ends up falling in love with the girl next door called Evie. Evie lives with her strict mother, in the house her mother grew up in until her father threw her out. For getting pregnant and to top things off the babies father was coloured.

All though Evie’s life she’s had to fight prejudices’ against her because of her colour. When these man and women arrived on the Empire Windrush, for once she started to feel less alone. She started to date Lawrie from next door and he introduced her to his friends.

Lawrie played in a band with some of his friends in clubs down in Soho. Some nights Evie would go to the night club with one of her friends, just so she could see Lawrie and have a little dance with him during his break.

Eventually Lawrie and Evie become engaged. But things become very difficult for them, when Lawrie finds and pulls out a black baby from a pond on Clapham Common. The police arrest Lawrie as they are sure he is the babies father.

One of the police men that interviewed Lawrie starts harassing him. Turning up at his home, work place and anywhere else Lawrie goes. Then they turn to Evie and try to get her to confess to the baby being hers and that she killed it. The same police man that harassed Lawrie starts to harass them both any chance he gets.

Eventually secrets come out that could jeopardise Lawrie and Evie’s future wedding and happiness. When certain secrets come out Lawrie understands Evie’s dislike of his best friend. Can Lawrie and Evie overcome all of the secrets that had been kept? Who will be charged with the murder of the baby girl and what has Evie’s mother got to do with what’s been happening?

Such an interesting book to read. Telling us about the hardships and prejudices’ that the Empire Windrush people had to overcome along with the realisation that life in London wasn’t what they expected. A lack of housing, the lack of people either wanting to give them jobs or even willing to let them rent a room or house. Also the country was still rationing food along with the cold bleak weather.

I look forward to seeing what else this author writes next.

Pages: 400, Publication Date: 12 March 2020, My Rating: 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Miss Aldridge Regrets by Louise Hare - intriguing historical murder mystery

Which is your favorite book set in early 20th century? Or your favorite #historicalmystery? #Bookreview #MissAldridgeRegrets #LouiseHare #BookTwitter @BerkleyPub

Miss Aldridge Regrets is engaging and intriguing historical murder mystery with many layers and perfect setting. Miss Aldridge Regrets by Louise Hare Publication Date : July 5th 2022 Publisher : Berkley Books Genre : Historical Fiction / Mystery Pages : 368 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Tea For this Book : A liitle bit of, Ginger Honey + Black Discalimer – Many thanks to Berkley for eARC via…