![]() ![]() At the village pub, she acquires a new friend named Gus, who knew both the remarkable writer of the book and its equally remarkable backstory he helps her fill in the missing pieces regarding both the fate of the rambunctious duchess and the surprising connection between Pru and Annie herself. Many years later Annie journeys with her mother to the same village, and is captivated by a forgotten old biography describing the outrageous exploits of the duchess. Spencer-who many people suspect to be the Duchess of Marlborough-in the village of Banbury. Pru, grieving and adrift, accepts employment as the caretaker of an elderly, reclusive English woman named Mrs. The duchess’s quirky, colorful life is processed through the eyes of two young American women living in different decades: Pru, who finds herself directionless after the death of her fiancé in the Vietnam war and Annie, whose fiancé has just been sent to fight in Afghanistan in the tumultuous post-911 days of the early 21st-century. ![]()
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