The Girl From The Savoy

The Girl From The Savoy
Hazel Gaynor

‘Addictive, charming and gleaming with Jazz Age glitz’ The LadyThe fabulous new novel from the author of The Girl Who Came HomeDolly Lane is a dreamer; a downtrodden maid who longs to dance on the London stage, but the outbreak of war takes everything from her: Teddy, the man she loves – and her hopes of a better life.When she secures employment as a chambermaid at London’s grandest hotel, The Savoy, Dolly’s proximity to the dazzling guests makes her yearn for a life beyond the grey drudgery she was born into. Her fortunes take an unexpected turn when she responds to an unusual newspaper advert and finds herself thrust into the heady atmosphere of London’s glittering theatre scene and into the sphere of the celebrated actress, Loretta May, and her brother, Perry.All three are searching for something, yet the aftermath of war has cast a dark shadow over them all. A brighter future is tantalisingly close – but can a girl like Dolly ever truly leave her past behind?

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For my sister, Helen.

With love, and a large G&T.

… men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Table of Contents

Cover (#u427c864b-bb17-5fbe-ac0b-d3bacd617bab)

Title Page (#ubd1a9726-4d7e-5586-a960-eaf6c5249028)

Copyright (#u13632ace-dee1-5609-a34b-48488274d932)

Dedication (#u0cf1a384-0236-5969-887e-7b2f8c69de45)

Epigraph (#u08ebc2e7-29ba-5c14-ad46-9ef99c9b3738)

Prologue (#u98cebb5c-21af-5723-996f-e9e10c92d8a6)

ACT I: Hope (#ua6d77b46-9fda-5367-9fa3-9fbfd30a43b4)

Chapter 1: Dolly (#u8cb13ffc-8cda-5e37-b9f3-e4fc24e27114)

Chapter 2: Dolly (#u7056cfd7-8e81-5aea-a395-70ae621e482d)

Chapter 3: Loretta (#u033096de-7459-50c7-8a24-3c23bbfd4f0b)

Chapter 4: Dolly (#u932e0245-80fd-583f-a611-eb7cd07557df)

Chapter 5: Teddy (#ub548f80a-341b-5494-a7c4-5f4f83c0204b)

Chapter 6: Dolly (#u32453ed9-755c-57bc-9c9c-6abe4d2e679f)

Chapter 7: Loretta (#u8ba741ee-4a83-5e3b-83ab-ccb5a4062671)

Chapter 8: Loretta (#u3dac7de2-61e3-5de9-861f-3270bac3a1b5)

Chapter 9: Dolly (#ub0b44074-2a5f-5119-bcea-04c3bfb59898)

Chapter 10: Dolly (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11: Teddy (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12: Dolly (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13: Loretta (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14: Loretta (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15: Dolly (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16: Teddy (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17: Dolly (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18: Loretta (#litres_trial_promo)