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Blog Tour: The Dazzle of the Light, Georgina Clarke

I am thrilled to be on the tour for this read.


Dazzling the plot: A sparkling new historical novel set in the 1920s, inspired by the notorious all-female crime syndicate known as the Forty Thieves who operated out of the slums of south London


Ruby Mills is ruthlessly ambitious, strikingly beautiful - and one of the Forty Thieves' most talented members.


Harriet Littlemore writes the women's section in a local newspaper. She's from a 'good' London family and engaged to an up-and-coming Member of Parliament - but she wants a successful career of her own.


After witnessing Ruby fleeing the scene of a robbery, Harriet develops a fascination with the elusive young thief that extends beyond journalistic interest. As their personal aspirations bring them into closer contact than society's rules usually allow, Ruby and Harriet's stories become increasingly intertwined.


Their magnetic dynamic, fraught with envy and desire, tells a compulsive, cinematic story about class, morality and the cost of being an independent woman in 1920s London.


Bobs and Books honest review:


Atmospheric in its nature, that totally immersed me into its 20s world.


I keep trying to choose between Ruby and Harriet, but I think I liked them both in 2 very different ways. Two very different sides of the coin but both interesting and intriguing in their own special way.


I too am in the category that I didn't know Forty Thieves was a real thing- how brilliant when real history is transformed into such an engaging read.


Educational in its sassiest form.



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