Park Lane is the story of two determined women forging their own lives in socially constrained Edwardian London. Housemaid Grace Campbell is lying to her family that she is a highly paid secretary. Meanwhile, heartbroken debutante Bea Masters joins a group of radical suffragettes. When war breaks out in 1914, the walls between their worlds start to crumble, setting their lives on collision.
Frances Osborne is a best-selling author. The Bolter was a San Francisco Chronicle's Book of the Year and No.1 bestseller in the UK. Lilla's Feast, a New York Times Editor's Choice, has been translated into six languages. Park Lane, a novel starting in a London Mansion in 1914, will be published in June and is a Booksellers' Choice in the UK.