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Graydon House

9781525805004

STARRED REVIEW

The Housekeepers

Alex Hay’s debut, The Housekeepers, is mischievous, suspenseful and just plain fun as it follows a gang of female thieves in Edwardian England.

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Review of ‘The Housekeepers’

Sometimes you can’t help but root for the bad guys. 

Such is the case with housekeeper-turned-criminal mastermind Mrs. Dinah King and her eclectic gang of co-conspirators in Alex Hay’s debut novel, The Housekeepers. The novel is set in London’s wealthy Park Lane in 1905 during the height of the Edwardian era, which Hay describes in…

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