The woman in the sable coat : a novel

Title:

Author:

Brooks, Elizabeth, 1979- author.

Summary:

At the height of the Second World War in England, Nina Woodrow joins the Royal Air Force and rebels against her careful upbringing by embarking on an illicit affair with an officer. She risks losing everything for Guy Nicholson: her comfortable home, her childhood friends, and, especially, the love of her father, an enigmatic widower. Meanwhile, in the sleepy village where Nina grew up, where the upheavals of war seem far away and divorce remains taboo, Kate Nicholson struggles to cope with her new role as the wronged wife. She finds an unlikely confidant in Nina's father, Henry, and as they grow closer Kate finds that she's embroiled in something much murkier, and more menacing, than a straightforward friendship. Sweeping and impassioned, with pitch-perfect period detail, Elizabeth Brooks' The Woman in the Sable Coat tells the story of two families fatally entangled in each other's deepest, darkest secrets. -- Provided by publisher.

General Note:

Includes Reader's Guide with discussion questions.

Edition:

First US edition.

Physical Description:

333 pages ; 22 cm

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Corporate Subject:

Great Britain. Royal Air Force -- Fiction.

Subject Term:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.

Adultery -- Fiction.

Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.

Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Tin House,

Publication Date:

2024

ISBN:

9781959030355

Publication Information:

Portland, Oregon : Tin House, 2024.

Call Number:

BROOKS

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Summary

At the height of the Second World War in England, twenty-two year old Nina Woodrow joins the British Royal Air Force and rebels against her careful upbringing by embarking on an illicit affair with an officer. She risks losing everything for Guy Nicholson: her comfortable home, her childhood friends, and, especially, the love of her father, an enigmatic widower.

Meanwhile, in the sleepy village where Nina grew up, where the upheavals of war seem far away and divorce remains taboo, Kate Nicholson struggles to cope with her new role as the wronged wife. She finds an unlikely confidant in Nina's father, Henry, and as they grow closer Kate finds that she's embroiled in something much murkier, and more menacing, than a straightforward friendship.

Sweeping and impassioned, with pitch-perfect period detail, Elizabeth Brooks' The Woman in the Sable Coat tells the story of two families fatally entangled in one another's deepest, darkest secrets.

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

English writer Brooks follows up The Whispering House with another seductive gothic novel. This time out, the focus is on a young woman's illicit affair during WWII. In 1942 Lincolnshire, Nina Woodrow, a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, is reacquainted with Royal Air Force officer Guy Nicholson, whom she first met eight years earlier at a dinner party hosted by her widowed father, Henry. Told by a friend that Guy is divorced from his wife, Kate, Nina begins an affair with him. Nina grew up believing her mother, Teodora, died in a car accident when she was two, but during a spooky séance with a makeshift spirit board, the letters suggest Teodora was murdered. Then Henry learns of Nina and Guy's affair and disowns her (it turns out Guy is still married). Kate and Henry, joined together by their mutual feelings of betrayal, become friends until she discovers some disturbing information about Teodora's death, leading her to rethink everything she thought she knew about Nina's "soft-spoken" father. Brooks's moody tale defies standard-issue WWII narratives of resilience, focusing instead on characters reexamining their relationships in the face of difficult truths. Readers will be rapt. Agent: Sarah Levitt, Aevitas Creative Management. (Mar.)