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    "description": "From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies\u2019 Choir comes a thrilling new WWII story about a village busybody\u2014the mighty Mrs. Braithwaite\u2014who resolves to find, and then rescue, her missing daughter\n \nMrs. Braithwaite, self-appointed queen of her English village, finds herself dethroned, despised, and dismissed following her husband\u2019s 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\u2014her clever daughter Betty, who took work there at the first rumbles of war.\n \nBut when she arrives, Betty\u2019s landlord, the timid Mr. Norris, informs her that Betty hasn\u2019t been home in days--with the chaos of the bombs, there\u2019s no telling what might have befallen her. Aghast, Mrs. Braithwaite sets her bullish determination to the task of finding her only daughter.\n \nStorming into the London Blitz, Mrs. Braithwaite drags the reluctant Mr. Norris along as an unwitting sidekick as they piece together Betty\u2019s 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\u2019s been puzzling her since her world overturned: How do you measure the success of your life?\n \nReaders will be charmed by the unforgettable Mrs. Braithwaite and her plucky, ruthless optimism, and find in The Spies of Shilling Lane a novel with surprising twists and turns, quiet humor, and a poignant examination of mothers and daughters and the secrets we keep.",
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