01902cam a2200289 4500 408591391 TxAuBib 20200117120000.0 190605t20202019||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019015981 9781250133014 HRD 27.00 1250133017 HRD 27.00 TxAuBib Black, Benjamin, 1945-, (pseudonym for John Banville.) The secret guests [BOOK] : a novel / B.W. Black. First edition. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020. ©2019. pages cm. Ahead of the German Blitz during World War II, English parents from every social class sent their children to the countryside for safety, displacing more than three million young offspring. In The Secret Guests, the British royal family takes this evacuation a step further, secretly moving the princesses to the estate of the Duke of Edenmore in "neutral" Ireland. A female English secret agent, Miss Celia Nashe, and a young Irish detective, Garda Strafford, are assigned to watch over "Ellen" and "Mary" atClonmillis Hall. But the Irish stable hand, the housemaid, the formidable housekeeper, the Duke himself, and other Irish townspeople, some of whom lost family to English gunshots during the War of Independence, go freely about their business in and aroundthe great house. Soon suspicions about the guests' true identities percolate, a dangerous boredom sets in for the princesses, and, within and without Clonmillis acreage, passions as well as stakes rise. 20200117. World War, 1939-1945 Ireland Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. Historical fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Banville, John, 1945-