Allison Montclair: An Excellent Thing in a Woman
Sparks & Bainbridge #7
This is one of the best series going at the moment, and even though it’s the seventh, this installment retains the freshness and originality of the very first. It follows the adventures of Gwen Bainbridge (a widowed socialite) and Iris Sparks (a former WWII spy), who together run The Right Sort, a marriage bureau in central London. It’s now 1947, and as London recovers from the horrors of war it still finds new things to celebrate, like the dawn of a new technological miracle – television. Gwen’s beau Sally, a giant sometime playwright, works at the BBC, and is willing to take Gwen, Iris and Gwen’s son and cousin on a tour of the studio.