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MRS ENGLAND

Stacey Halls

From the bestselling author of The Familiars and The Foundling comes Stacey Halls's most compelling and ambitious novel to date.
West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts to life at the isolated Hardcastle House, it becomes clear there's something not quite right about the beautiful, mysterious Mrs England.

Ostracised by the servants and feeling increasingly uneasy, Ruby is forced to confront her own demons in order to prevent history from repeating itself. After all, there's no such thing as the perfect family - and she should know.

Simmering with slow-burning menace, Mrs England is a portrait of an Edwardian marriage, weaving an enthralling story of men and women, power and control, courage, truth and the very darkest deception. Set against the atmospheric landscape of West Yorkshire, Stacey Halls's third novel proves her one of the most exciting and compelling new storytellers of our times.

Stacey Halls was born in 1989 and grew up in Rossendale, Lancashire. She studied journalism at the University of Central Lancashire and has written for publications including the Guardian, Stylist, Psychologies, the Independent, the Sun and Fabulous. Her first book, The Familiars, was the bestselling debut hardback novel of 2019, won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards' Debut Book of the Year.
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Published 2021-06-10 by Bonnier

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France: Lafon

MRS ENGLAND by Stacey Halls was published in paperback on 6th January 2022 and immediately charted at #9 on the Sunday Times Bestseller list. This means that every title written by Stacey Halls has now charted in both hardback and paperback.

Stacey Halls has been shortlisted for the Women's Prize x Good Housekeeping Futures Award!