Coronation Year

The USA Todaybestselling author of The Gown returns with another enthralling and royal-adjacent historical novel—as the lives of three very different residents of London’s historic Blue Lion hotel converge in a potentially explosive climax on the day of Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation.


It is Coronation Year, 1953, and a new queen isabout to be crowned. The people of London are in a mood to celebrate, none more so than the residents of the Blue Lion hotel.

EdieHoward, owner and operator of the floundering Blue Lion, hasfound themiracle she needs: on Coronation Day, Queen Elizabeth in her gold coach willpass by the hotel’s front door, allowing Edie to charge a fortune for roomsand, barring disaster, saveher beloved home from financial ruin. Edie’s luck might just be turning, all thanks to a young queen about her own age.

Stella Donati, a young Italian photographer andHolocaust survivor, has come to live at the BlueLion while she takes up a covetedposition atPicture Weeklymagazine. London in celebration mode feels like a different world to her. As she learns the ins and outs of her new profession, Stella discovers a purpose and direction that honor her past and bring hope for her future.

James Geddes, a war hero and gifted artist, hasstruggled to make his mark in a world thatdisdains his Indian ancestry. At theBlue Lion, though, he is made to feel welcome andworthy. Yet even as his friendshipwith Edie deepens, he begins to suspect that something is badly amiss at his new home.

When anonymous threats focused on CoronationDay, the Blue Lion, and even the queen herself disrupt their mood ofhappy optimism, Edie andher friends must race touncover the truth, save their home, and expose those who seek toerase the joy and promise of Coronation Year.

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