Barrett Bookstore 2024
Novelist Helen Simonson to Talk About Her Latest: ‘The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club’
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Calling all fans of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand! Darien Library and Barrett Bookstore welcome author Helen Simonson on Wednesday evening to talk about her latest book, The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club. — an announcement from Darien Library
A timeless comedy of manners—refreshing as a summer breeze and bracing as the British seaside—about a generation of young women facing the seismic changes brought on by war and dreaming of the boundless possibilities of their future. It is the summer of 1919 and Constance Haverhill is without prospects. Now that all the men have returned from the front, she has been asked to give up her cottage and her job at the estate she helped run during the war. While she looks for a position as a bookkeeper or—horror—a governess, she’s sent as a lady’s companion to an old family friend who is convalescing at a seaside hotel.