The Modern Girl: A heartwrenching novel of love, family and secrets
About this ebook
When Frances Stewart wins a beauty pageant in 1931, she also wins a Hollywood screen test which enables her to leave behind her staid Victorian lifestyle in New Zealand and become the ‘modern girl’ she aspires to be. But she soon finds the reality behind the glamorous Hollywood facade isn’t as wonderful as she’d imagined.
Ninety years later, Paige Sinclair travels to New Zealand to meet her previously unknown and ailing grandmother, and an ancestral home she’s been told she will inherit. With a failed marriage and alone in the world, Paige feels compelled to look back into the past to satisfy her need for family and connections. So she starts with her grandmother and the mysterious, abandoned house which holds the key to a secret Paige is determined to uncover. But some secrets are never quite as they seem…
A compelling story of love, family and secrets, for fans of Kate Morton, Fiona Valpy, Mary Ellen Taylor, and Hannah Richell.
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About the author
Diana grew up on the north Norfolk coast of England but now lives near Wellington in New Zealand.
She writes dual timeline women’s fiction—the kind of books for people who love forgotten houses, secrets kept too well and for too long, and romance—in all its shapes and forms.
She lives near the settings of her books—Wellington, the Wairarapa, Napier—and has plenty of photos, historical tidbits and reviews of dual timeline books on her blog.
You can find out more about Diana and her books at http://www.dianakholmes.com.
