It is 1969 and in the small English town of Kingshaven, eight year old Julia Allsop wants to be a princess.But a fairytale wedding doesn't necessarily mean happily ever after, and Julia discovers that life is more complicated than dreams of romance...
On the other side of town, nineteen-year old feminist Iris Quinn hopes to find independence and a successful career in London,but a passionate, clandestine affair threatens to destroy everything she believes in...
The tangled lives of two very different women and their families unfold across two decades of a rapidly changing world:from glass slippers to glass ceilings via Glam Rock, Grease and Greenham Common, Julia and Iris risk all in their search for fulfillment and love. Whatever love means....
Imogen Parker is the acclaimed author of several novels. Her first novel about Kingshaven and the Palace Hotel,The Time of our Lives,was published by Corgi in 2007. She lives on the south coast with her husband and son.
Remember the time when love was the answer, even when we didn't know the question?>
