{"title":"Books by Heather Webb","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780008556495","title":"Christmas with the Queen","description":"\u003cp\u003eCurl up this winter with a heart-warming Christmas romance for fans of The Crown and Downton Abbey!' A page-turning festive read, full of will they\/won't they romance, intriguing glimpses of royal life behind palace doors, and inspiring culinary treats.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs delicious as a Christmas pudding topped with flaming brandy and lashings of cream' Gill Paul\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecember 1952As a young Queen Elizabeth II prepares to deliver her first Christmas speech, staff work behind the scenes to get ready for the festivities at Sandringham Estate. Among them are Jack and Olive – old friends who are surprised to be reunited after seven years apart. While Olive works for the BBC reporting on the royal family, and Jack is employed in the queen’s kitchens, their bond deepens – until a secret threatens to tear them apart. When the truth comes to light, it could change Olive and Jack's lives forever. But maybe Christmas has one last gift to deliver…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders love Christmas with the Queen!:‘Oh what a gorgeous read… full of warmth and love and nostalgia’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘So well researched you almost feel like you are with the Queen’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I loved this book from the very first page’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Jack and Olive were both wonderfully real and complex, they leapt from the page …\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA captivating Christmas read to be savoured' Amanda Geard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A must read for anyone in need of Christmas magic' Georgie Blalock\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56221697016181,"sku":"9780008556495","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008556495_fc96acfd-5a0a-4cd6-a60d-5aef02557534.jpg?v=1785658944"},{"product_id":"9780062965240","title":"Three Words for Goodbye","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb, the bestselling authors of \u003cem\u003eMeet Me in Monaco, \u003c\/em\u003ecomes a coming-of-age novel set in pre-WWII Europe, perfect for fans of Jennifer Robson, Beatriz Williams, and Kate Quinn.  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThree cities, two sisters, one chance to correct the past . . .\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eNew York, 1937: When estranged sisters Clara and Madeleine Sommers learn their grandmother is dying, they agree to fulfill her last wish: to travel across Europe—together. They are to deliver three letters, in which Violet will say goodbye to those she hasn’t seen since traveling to Europe forty years earlier; a journey inspired by famed reporter, Nellie Bly.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eClara, ever-dutiful, sees the trip as an inconvenient detour before her wedding to millionaire Charles Hancock, but it’s also a chance to embrace her love of art. Budding journalist Madeleine relishes the opportunity to develop her ambitions to report on the growing threat of Hitler’s Nazi party and Mussolini’s control in Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eConstantly at odds with each other as they explore the luxurious \u003cem\u003eQueen Mary\u003c\/em\u003e, the Orient Express, and the sights of Paris and  Venice,, Clara and Madeleine wonder if they can fulfil Violet’s wish, until a shocking truth about their family brings them closer together. But as they reach Vienna to deliver the final letter, old grudges threaten their reconciliation again. As political tensions rise, and Europe feels increasingly volatile, the pair are glad to head home on the \u003cem\u003eHindenburg\u003c\/em\u003e, where fate will play its hand in the final stage of their journey.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56222290837877,"sku":"9780062965240","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780062965240_874c0dd7-a08a-4e4a-8e33-116ae1e9b80b.jpg?v=1786011430"},{"product_id":"9780062885364","title":"Meet Me in Monaco","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A fragrant French bonbon of a book: love, glamour, perfume, and paparazzi all circling around the wedding of the century...\"--Kate Quinn, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of THE ALICE NETWORK and THE HUNTRESS.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNamed one of \u003cem\u003eInStyle\u003c\/em\u003e's best books to put in your totebag for the summer!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNamed one of\u003cem\u003e Popsugar\u003c\/em\u003e's best books to put in your beachbag this summer and one of the best books of July!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSet in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly's whirlwind romance and unforgettable wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb take the reader on an evocative sun-drenched journey along the Côte d'Azur in this page-turning novel of passion, fate and second chances...\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMovie stars and paparazzi flock to Cannes for the glamorous film festival, but Grace Kelly, the biggest star of all, wants only to escape from the flash-bulbs. When struggling perfumer Sophie Duval shelters Miss Kelly in her boutique to fend off a persistent British press photographer, James Henderson, a bond is forged between the two women and sets in motion a chain of events that stretches across thirty years of friendship, love, and tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Henderson cannot forget his brief encounter with Sophie Duval. Despite his guilt at being away from his daughter, he takes an assignment to cover the wedding of the century, sailing with Grace Kelly's wedding party on the \u003cem\u003eSS Constitution\u003c\/em\u003e from New York. In Monaco, as wedding fever soars and passions and tempers escalate, James and Sophie'like Princess Grace'must ultimately decide what they are prepared to give up for love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56222361780597,"sku":"9780062885364","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780062885364_fed68a39-0ef2-4e47-8712-18b213c5ef42.jpg?v=1786011247"},{"product_id":"9780062916075","title":"Ribbons of Scarlet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“The French Revolution comes alive through the eyes of six diverse and complex women, in the skilled hands of these amazing authors.”--Martha Hall Kelly, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eLilac Girls\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA breathtaking, epic novel illuminating the hopes, desires, and destinies of princesses and peasants, harlots and wives, fanatics and philosophers—seven unforgettable women whose paths cross during one of the most tumultuous and transformative events in history: the French Revolution.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRibbons of Scarlet \u003cem\u003eis a timely story of the power of women to start a revolution—and change the world.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn late eighteenth-century France, women do not have a place in politics. But as the tide of revolution rises, women from gilded salons to the streets of Paris decide otherwise—upending a world order that has long oppressed them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlue-blooded Sophie de Grouchy believes in democracy, education, and equal rights for women, and marries the only man in Paris who agrees. Emboldened to fight the injustices of King Louis XVI, Sophie aims to prove that an educated populace can govern itself--but one of her students, fruit-seller Louise Audu, is hungrier for bread and vengeance than learning. When the Bastille falls and Louise leads a women’s march to Versailles, the monarchy is forced to bend, but not without a fight. The king’s pious sister Princess Elisabeth takes a stand to defend her brother, spirit her family to safety, and restore the old order, even at the risk of her head.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when fanatics use the newspapers to twist the revolution’s ideals into a new tyranny, even the women who toppled the monarchy are threatened by the guillotine. Putting her faith in the pen, brilliant political wife Manon Roland tries to write a way out of France’s blood-soaked Reign of Terror while pike-bearing Pauline Leon and steely Charlotte Corday embrace violence as the only way to save the nation. With justice corrupted by revenge, all the women must make impossible choices to survive--unless unlikely heroine and courtesan’s daughter Emilie de Sainte-Amaranthe can sway the man who controls France’s fate: the fearsome Robespierre.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56222387831157,"sku":"9780062916075","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780062916075_b1d5d6ad-a5ee-4cf4-be90-491431bea6a6.jpg?v=1786011325"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-heather-webb.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}