Lena Aldridge is wondering if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn’t worked out. Instead, she’s stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club in Soho and her married lover has just left her. She has nothing to look forward to until a stranger offers her the chance of a […]
RMS Queen Mary, the great transatlantic liner
While researching transatlantic liners for her new murder mystery, Louise Hare discovered the “perfect ship” already existed: the glamorous, luxurious RMS Queen Mary, launched at the perfect time: the turbulent late 1930s. She tells Historia about what was once the greatest cruise ship of all. When I originally set out to write Miss Aldridge Regrets, […]