April in Paris, 1921
Lunney, Tessa2018
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Meet the glamorous, witty and charming Kiki Button: socialite, private detective and spy. We all have secrets - it's just that Kiki has more than most It was 1921, and after two years at home in Australia, Katherine King Button has had enough. Her rich parents have ordered her to get married, but after serving as a nurse during the horrors of the Great War, she has vowed never to take orders again. She flees her parents and the prison of their expectations for the place of friendship and freedom: Paris. Paris in 1921 is the city of freedom, the place where she can remake herself as Kiki Button, gossip columnist extraordinaire, partying with the rich and famous, the bohemian and bold, the suspicious and strange. But on the modelling dais, Picasso gives her a job: to find his wife's portrait, which has gone mysteriously missing. That same night, her old spymaster from the war contacts her - she has to find a double agent or face jail. Through parties, whisky and informants, Kiki has to use every ounce of her determination, her wit and her wiles to save herself, the man she adores, and the life she has come to love - in just one week. Playful, charming, witty and very, very entertaining, Kiki Button - the fearless, beautiful and blonde-bobbed Australienne - is a heroine to win hearts. Kikki Button lives by her wits, her style and an irrepressible joie de vivre. An Australian debutante-turned-nurse-turned-spy, Kiki Button traipses through Paris's sensual bohemian culture hunting for a World War I mole and stolen Pablo Picasso painting.
April in Paris, 1921 / Tessa Lunney.
Lunney, Tessa, author
Sydney, NSW : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.©2018
vii, 310 pages ; 24 cm.
9781460755778 (paperback)
A823.4
English
Button, Kiki (Fictitious character) -- FictionAustralians -- France -- Paris -- FictionWomen spies -- France -- Paris -- FictionYoung women -- France -- Paris -- FictionNineteen twenties -- FictionArt thefts -- France -- FictionParis (France) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- FictionDetective and mystery fictionSpy fiction
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Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - Crime | LUNN | Available |