{"product_id":"9781803993607","title":"Scandal at Dolphin Square : A Notorious History by Simon Danczuk","description":"`A rollicking romp.' - Mail On Sunday`Compelling, authoritative and as readable as the best airport thriller. It fizzes with crime, fame, power and illicit sex.' - Jeremy Vine`A timely and important book. It's quite remarkable how one building has played host to such debauchery. If only the walls could talk.' - Iain DaleDesigned as a city dwelling for the modern age, Dolphin Square opened in London's Pimlico in 1936. Boasting 1,250 hi-tech flats, a swimming pool, restaurant, gardens and shopping arcade, the complex quickly attracted a long list of the affluent and influential. But behind its veneer of respectability, the Square has become one of the country's most notorious addresses; a place where the private lives of those from the highest of high society and the lowest depths of the underworld have collided and played out over the best part of a century.   This is the story of the Square and its people, an ever-evolving cast of larger-than- life characters who have borne witness to, and played pivotal roles in, some of the most scandalous episodes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From Oswald Mosley and the Carry On gang to allegations of systematic sexual abuse, it is a saga replete with mysterious deaths, exploitation, espionage, illicit love affairs and glamour, shining a light on the changing nature of British politics and society in the modern age.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307578306933,"sku":"9781803993607","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781803993607.jpg?v=1762804460","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781803993607","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}