| International Standard Book Number |
9780385551168
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| International Standard Book Number |
0385551169
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
823/.914 TnLvILS
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| Personal Name |
Atkinson, Kate, author.
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| Title Statement |
Our noble selves : a novel / Kate Atkinson.
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| Edition Statement |
First U.S. hardcover edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : Doubleday, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
331 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"A thrilling tale of post-World War II London-a city in disrepair, a population hungry to return to its former glory, a veteran in its employ, desperate to return to a home that no longer exists."-- Provided by publisher.
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| Summary, Etc. |
It’s the summer of 1951 and everyone is looking to put the dark days of the war behind them. The government’s The Festival of Britain, a celebration of the country’s creativity, grit and ingenuity. For foreign correspondent turned war reporter Harry Flynn, it might offer the chance of redemption after a bad war in the Far East and a peace that is proving no easier to negotiate. Having failed to resume his journalistic career, he reluctantly joins an oddball team of misfits, ne’er-do-wells and downright chancers helping to ready the Festival of Britain for launch. Flynn’s attempts to resume some semblance of a romantic life also founder when one of his dates goes missing and he is deemed to be the last person to have seen her alive. Could he have been in some way responsible for her disappearance? Little does he realize that the answer to some of his mounting problems may lie in the hands of a precocious, straight-talking thirteen-year-old called Veronica and a rather scruffy terrier who goes by the name of Mrs Betty…
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Missing persons Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World War, 1939-1945 Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Nineteen fifties Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Thrillers (Fiction)
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