Sydney has other adventures in mind she is drawn to the burgeoning suffragette movement, which is a constant source of embarrassment to her proper sister. Brooke is engaged to marry impoverished aristocrat Edward Thorpe-Tracey, the future Lord Northbrook, in the wedding of the social calendar.
As the First World War rages in continental Europe, two New York heiresses, Sydney and Brooke Sinclair, are due to set sail for England. "In this, her third novel, Kim Izzo renders the last voyage of the Lusitania in such terrifyingly accurate detail that we readers cannot help but feel we too are aboard that doomed ship-and in Winston Churchill's ultra-secret lair, Room 40-as the ineluctable forces of history converge." - Erik Larson, bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile For readers of Kate Williams, Beatriz Williams and Jennifer Robson, a captivating novel of love and resilience during the Great War, inspired by the author's family history.
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