01906cam a2200277 4500 160674946 TxAuBib 20140521120000.0 120410s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012013545 9780345803283 0345803280 TxAuBib Osborne, Frances. Park Lane : a novel-SC / by Frances Osborne. New York : Vintage Books, 2012. 322 p. ; 21 cm. "When eighteen-year-old Grace Campbell arrives in London in 1914, she's unable to fulfill her family's ambitions and find a position as an office secretary. Lying to her parents and her brother, Michael, she takes a job as a housemaid at Number 35, Park Lane, where she is quickly caught up in lives of its inhabitants-- in particular, those of its privileged son, Edward, and daughter, Beatrice, who is recovering from a failed relationship that would have taken her away from an increasingly stifling life. Desperate to find a new purpose, Bea joins a group of radical suffragettes and strikes up an intriguing romance with an impassioned young lawyer. Unbeknownst to each of the young women, the choices they make amid the rapidly changing world of WWI will connect their chances at future happiness in dramatic and inevitable ways" -- p. [4] of cover. 20140521. Women England London Fiction. Women household employees England London Fiction. Historical Fiction. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1211/2012013545-b.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1211/2012013545-d.html Publisher description https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1211/2012013545-s.html Sample text