Mrs. Braithwaite, self-appointed queen of her English village, finds herself dethroned, despised, and dismissed following her husband’s selfish divorce petition. Never deterred, the threat of a family secret being revealed sets her hot-foot to London to find the only person she has left—her clever daughter Betty, who took work there at the first rumbles of war. But when she arrives, Betty’s landlord, the timid Mr. Norris, informs her that Betty hasn’t been home in days--with the chaos of the bombs, there’s no telling what might have befallen her. Aghast, Mrs. Braithwaite sets her bullish determination to the task of finding her only daughter. Storming into the London Blitz, Mrs. Braithwaite drags the reluctant Mr. Norris along as an unwitting sidekick as they piece together Betty’s unexpectedly chaotic life. As she is thrown into the midst of danger and death, Mrs. Braithwaite is forced to rethink her old-fashioned notions of status, class, and reputation, and to reconsider the question that’s been puzzling her since her world overturned: How do you measure the success of your life?
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Jennifer Ryan
Born in a village in Kent, just south of London in the UK, my childhood was one of gallivanting around the countryside, often on bikes, climbing trees, cobbling dams over trickling streams, launching attacks on neighborhood factions, and eating cheese and tomato rolls in red telephone boxes to shelter from the rain. It is these memories, the pale English sunshine, the scent of lavender, honeysuckle, rose mingling with freshly cut grass, the sound of birds and bees and balls on tennis courts, that fill in the background of my stories, forming a full setting of a living, moving world. After school and college, I worked as an editor for nonfiction books in London, and as my editing and writing became stronger, I began to thread my way into writing fiction. But it was once I had married and moved to Washington, DC, that I began to write voraciously, and when I took time off work to have children, I found the space and time to write my first novel, The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir. It took five years of hearty researching, writing, and reworking, and I hope that you enjoy reading it as much as I loved creating it. The novel was is published by Crown Publishing in the US and HarperCollins UK, and by publishers in 12 different countries around the world. The TV rights have been optioned by Carnival, the makers of Downton Abbey.
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