The Secret Guests A Novel

Benjamin Black, Barrie Kreinik

eAudio - 2020

"When you're done binge-watching The Crown, pick up this multifaceted wartime thriller."—Kirkus ReviewsAs London endures nightly German bombings, Britain's secret service whisks the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret from England, seeking safety for the young royals on an old estate in Ireland.Ahead of the German Blitz during World War II, English parents from every social class sent their children to the countryside for safety, displacing more than three million young offspring. In The Secret Guests, the British royal family takes this evacuation a step further, secretly moving the princesses to the estate of the Duke of Edenmore in "neutral" Ireland.A female English secret agent, Miss Celia Nashe, and a youn...g Irish detective, Garda Strafford, are assigned to watch over "Ellen" and "Mary" at Clonmillis Hall. But the Irish stable hand, the housemaid, the formidable housekeeper, the Duke himself, and other Irish... more