02059cam a2200349 4500 771815590 TxAuBib 20210702120000.0 190605s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019015981 9781250133014 trade 1250133017 trade DLC eng DLC ICrlF TxAuBib Black, Benjamin, 1945- The secret guests [Book] : a novel / B.W. Black. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2020. 291 p. ; 25 cm. Library Journal Starred, December 2019. Booklist, December 2019. Kirkus Review, October 2019. Library Journal Starred. Booklist. Kirkus Review. 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 . . . 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" at Clonmillis 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 around the 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"--Provided by publisher. Adult Follett Library Resources. Adult. 20210702. World War, 1939-1945 Ireland Fiction. Historical fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.)