‘The Scent of Secrets’ by Jane Thynne (Published in September 2015 by Ballantine Books)
The Scent of Secrets, by Jane Thynne, is historical fiction set in 1938 and published last month in the US and Canada by Ballantine Books and Doubleday Canada. “The novel richly fuses fact and fiction with a cast of real Nazis and their British admirers, such as the Mitford sisters and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor,” according to its Goodreads page. It “puts a new spin on an ever-fascinating era, fraught with glamor, political tension, tragedy, and romance.” What an interesting idea!
To make things more confusing, it was published under the title A War of Flowers in the UK and is the third in a series (although The Scent of Secrets is the first of the series to be published in North America, according to this Q & A by the author). The second book in the series, The Winter Garden, looks like this:
‘The Winter Garden’ by Jane Thynne (Paperback published in 2014 by Simon & Schuster)
I guess Jane Thynne’s publishers really, really like that 1949 photograph by Frances McLaughlin-Gill.
By the way, if you’re new to this blog and you’re wondering what I’m going on about, five years ago I wrote a novel about political tension, glamour, tragedy and romance, set in 1938 and featuring real-life Nazis and their British supporters, including the Mitford sisters and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. It looked like this:
‘The FitzOsbornes in Exile’, North American hardcover, released on April 5th, 2011