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The Woman in the Sable Coat

by Elizabeth Brooks
Esther Wane
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From the acclaimed author of The Orphan of Salt Winds, The Whispering House, and The House in the Orchard comes a passionate and fateful story of love, betrayal, and the rewards-and costs-of following your heart. At the height of the Second World War in England, twenty-two-year-old Nina Woodrow joins the British Royal Air Force and rebels against her careful upbringing by embarking on an illicit affair with an officer. She risks losing everything for Guy Nicholson: her comfortable home, her childhood friends, and, especially, the love of her father, an enigmatic widower. Meanwhile, in the sleepy village where Nina grew up, where the upheavals of war seem far away and divorce remains taboo, Kate Nicholson struggles to cope with her new role as the wronged wife. She finds an unlikely confidant in Nina's father, Henry, and as they grow closer Kate finds that she's embroiled in something much murkier, and more menacing, than a straightforward friendship. Sweeping and impassioned, with pitch-perfect period detail, Elizabeth Brooks's The Woman in the Sable Coat tells the story of two families fatally entangled in one another's deepest, darkest secrets.

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    April 9, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9781696615204
      • File size: 331913 KB
      • Duration: 11:31:29

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 11, 2024
      English writer Brooks follows up The Whispering House with another seductive gothic novel. This time out, the focus is on a young woman’s illicit affair during WWII. In 1942 Lincolnshire, Nina Woodrow, a member of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, is reacquainted with Royal Air Force officer Guy Nicholson, whom she first met eight years earlier at a dinner party hosted by her widowed father, Henry. Told by a friend that Guy is divorced from his wife, Kate, Nina begins an affair with him. Nina grew up believing her mother, Teodora, died in a car accident when she was two, but during a spooky séance with a makeshift spirit board, the letters suggest Teodora was murdered. Then Henry learns of Nina and Guy’s affair and disowns her (it turns out Guy is still married). Kate and Henry, joined together by their mutual feelings of betrayal, become friends until she discovers some disturbing information about Teodora’s death, leading her to rethink everything she thought she knew about Nina’s “soft-spoken” father. Brooks’s moody tale defies standard-issue WWII narratives of resilience, focusing instead on characters reexamining their relationships in the face of difficult truths. Readers will be rapt. Agent: Sarah Levitt, Aevitas Creative Management.

    • Library Journal

      September 1, 2024

      On a ship crossing the Atlantic, a woman in a sable coat contemplates suicide as she looks back over her life. In flashbacks, listeners learn about Nina, who grew up in a small English village with her widowed father, Henry. She first meets Guy at a dinner party and harbors a secret crush on him for years. Years later, after World War II breaks out, she meets him again, but by now he is married and expecting his first child with Kate. Even so, he and Nina embark on a tenuous wartime affair. At the end of the war, Guy divorces Kate and abandons his son so he can marry Nina. Morally upright Henry disowns Nina, after which Guy convinces her to leave England and start a new life in Canada. Nina reluctantly agrees, only to return after realizing she is ill-suited to life as a farmer's wife. Brooks (The Whispering House) captures the moral climate of the time and the social changes that the war brings. Esther Wane narrates effectively, bringing out the emotional events that shape the lives of Nina and Kate. VERDICT A story of mystery, suspense, love, and conflicts. For fans of Julia Kelly, Kate Morton, and Louisa Young.--Joanna M. Burkhardt

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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