About the Book
London, 1939. Beautiful and ambitious Eva Harlow and her American best friend, Precious Dubose, are trying to make their way as fashion models. When Eva falls in love with Graham St. John, an aristocrat and Royal Air Force pilot, she can’t believe her luck—she’s getting everything she ever wanted. Then the Blitz devastates her world, and Eva finds herself slipping into a web of intrigue, spies, and secrets. As Eva struggles to protect her friendship with Precious and everything she holds dear, all it takes is one unwary moment to change their lives forever…
London, 2019. American journalist Maddie Warner, whose life has been marked by the tragic loss of her mother, travels to London to interview Precious about her life in pre-WWII London. Maddie has been careful to close herself off to others, but in Precious she recognizes someone whose grief rivals her own—but unlike Maddie, Precious hasn’t allowed it to crush her. Maddie finds herself drawn to both Precious and to Colin, her enigmatic surrogate nephew. As Maddie gets closer to her, she begins to unravel Precious’s haunting past—a story of friendship, betrayal, and the unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
My Review
I tend to always enjoy a Karen White novel, and when I read the synopsis for The Last Night in London, I knew I had to read it. The dual past-present storyline is a favorite of mine, and mixed with some historical fiction regarding The Blitz, I was hooked from the beginning. The friendship between Eva and Precious was a curious one for me. I could tell when reading we weren’t getting the full story, from 1939 and in 2019 regarding the women, but I wasn’t quite sure what was to be uncovered. Maddie’s story in the present didn’t pull me as much as 1930s chapters, but I still enjoyed the way the two were intertwined. I read this one quickly and brushed more than one tear from my eyes when I got to the end. Highly recommend.
5 stars
