Violet’s father is beginning to worry she will never find a husband at the ancient age of 28. But Violet finds a new and inventive means of rebuffing every suitor he presents.
Because Violet does not want to marry. She wants to work, and make her own way in the world.
But more than anything, she wants to find her mother Lily, who disappeared from Hastings Pier 10 years earlier.
Finding the missing is no job for a lady, but when Violet hires a seaside detective to help, she sets off a chain of events that will put more than just her reputation at risk.
Can Violet solve the mystery of Lily Hamilton’s vanishing before it’s too late?
No Life for a Lady by Hannah Dolby is published on 14 March, 2024.
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