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005			20231009192225.0
008			200528s20202020nyu 000 1 eng d
020			_a9781250133014
050	0	0	_aPR6052.A57 _bS44 2020
082	1		_aFIC BLA _2
100	1		_aBlack, Benjamin, 1945-
245	1	4	_aThe secret guests : _ba novel _c/ Benjamin Black
250			_aFirst edition
260			_aNew York _b: Henry Holt and Company _c, 2020
300			_a291 p. _c; 25 cm
520			_aAhead of the German Blitz during World War II, English parents from every social class sent their children to the countryside for safety, displacing more than three million young offspring. In The Secret Guests, the British royal family takes this evacuation a step further, secretly moving the princesses to the estate of the Duke of Edenmore in "neutral" Ireland. A female English secret agent, Miss Celia Nashe, and a young Irish detective, Garda Strafford, are assigned to watch over "Ellen" and "Mary" at Clonmillis Hall. But the Irish stable hand, the housemaid, the formidable housekeeper, the Duke himself, and other Irish townspeople, some of whom lost family to English gunshots during the War of Independence, go freely about their business in and around the great house. Soon suspicions about the guests' true identities percolate, a dangerous boredom sets in for the princesses, and, within and without Clonmillis acreage, passions as well as stakes rise.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _z-Ireland _x-Fiction
655		4	_aHistorical fiction
655		4	_aSuspense fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c233440 _d233440