A Complicated Matter Av Anne Youngson

<p><b>A young woman''s extraordinary journey of self-discovery and an intimate meditation on what it takes to find our place in the world.</b><br><br><b>''AN EXTRAORDINARY NEW WRITER'' </b>Nina Stibbe<br><b>''FULL OF GRACE AND HUMANITY''</b><i>Sunday Times </i><br><br><i>I used to believe the world had been created for me; every stone and grain of sand. As I grew older, I began to think of myself as something tacked on to the edge. </i><br><br>1939, London: From McPhail''s Passage to Kensington''s Grand Palace Hotel, Rose Dunbar is evacuated from her humble home on the Rock of Gibraltar and dropped into a chaotic city of falling bombs, perplexing class rules and bad weather. Despite being ''flagrantly foreign'' to the locals, she becomes an efficient go-between for the upper-class ladies helping out with the war effort and her own tribe of noisy displaced families.<br><br>It is only when she is shifted to the countryside to become secretary to the plain-speaking and sightless Major Inc

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