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Debutantes

Call no.: : TEF 823.92 HAR
Author: : Cora Harrison
Contributor: : Fezzanne Anak Raymond Umpu
Summary: It is 1923, and London is a whirl of Jazz, dancing and parrties. Violet, Daisy, Poppy and Rose Derrington are desprate to be part of it, but stuck in an enormous crumbling house in the country,with no money and no fashionable dresses, the excitement seems a lifetime away. Luckily the girls each have a plan for escaping their hundrum country life: Rose wants to be a novelist, Poppy a jazz musician and Daisy a famous film director. Violet, however, has only one ambition to become a perfect Debutante, so that she can go to London and catch the eye of Prince George, the most eligible bachelor in the country. But a house as big and old as Beech Grove Manor hides many secrets, and Daisy is about to uncover one so huge it could ruin all their plans ruin everything forever.