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What the Nanny Saw

July 26, 2013

What the Nanny Saw

  What the Nanny Saw is not the first book to look at the insular and dysfunctional world of nannies and the uber-rich but it may be the first to delve into that life as the employers are on their way down. Ali Sparrow is taking a year off from school to earn enough money to pay for her final year and has chosen the role of nanny as her job. She lands a plum assignment with ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: chick lit, contemporary life, London, Penguin

The Great Pearl Heist

December 26, 2012

The Great Pearl Heist

I’m not usually a fan of true crime but if we’re talking about the theft of one of the most expensive pieces of jewelry in history, count me in. Molly Caldwell Crosby’s The Great Pearl Heist takes place in London in 1912, a time of great change in the world of crime. It was only in the late 1800s that New Scotland Yard had created a department of detectives, designed to solve ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: 20th century, Berkley, crime, history, jewelry, London

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