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|title=The Girl from the Paradise Ballroom

|sort=Girl from the Paradise Ballroom, The

|publisher=Quartet Books

|date=December 2014

|summary=A skilfully written novel about the overlapping lives of two very different London families in the World War Two era.

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In Soho in 1937, Italian singer Antonio has found himself a wealthy patron. His patron’s wife, Olivia, is known to Antonio from a chance encounter at the Paradise Ballroom - and the spark they felt on that meeting starts to deepen as war begins to creep up on them. In an uncertain world, everything about their lives is under threat – the government perceives foreigners as threats and the war wreaks havoc with nerves and relationships.