Ask Alice

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<p>Glamorous Alice Keach is one of 1930s London's foremost hostesses. Despite humble American origins, she has secured her place in high society through marriage to one of England's wealthiest bachelors.</p><p>But Alice has a secret. Its roots run years back, and miles away, to the dust-blasted prairies of Kansas. It corncerns a lost little boy left under the haphazard guidance of an eccentric uncle. Now, a visit from America looks set to blow apart Alice's glittering pre-eminence forever.</p>

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D.J. Taylor was born in Norwich in 1960. He is a novelist, critic and acclaimed biographer, whose biography of Thackeray was a critically-acclaimed success and whose<i>Orwell: The Life</i>won the Whitbread Biography prize in 2003. His most recent books are<i>Kept: A Victorian Mystery</i>(a<i>Publishers Weekly</i>Book of the Year) and<i>Derby Day: A Victorian Mystery.</i>He is also the author of<i>Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940</i>, and the novel<i>At the Chime of a City Clock</i>.

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