Gone with the Windsors
Laurie Graham, . . HarperCollins, $24.95 (403pp) ISBN 978-0-06-087271-7
The diary entries of shallow and oblivious Baltimore socialite Maybell Brumby comprise Graham's fourth novel, which explores the fictional lives of intimates involved in the 1936 abdication of King Edward VIII. Maybell, widowed by her older husband, leaves for London in 1932 to join her sister Violet and falls in with her school friend Bessie Wallis "Wally" Simpson, the married woman (twice, in fact) who has set her sights on the then Prince of Wales. Through Maybell's American patricianism, Graham (
Reviewed on: 05/29/2006
Genre: Fiction
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