Madeleine Hamilton
(2027)(The second book in the Daughters of the Armistice series)
A novel by Hannah Byron
The perfect house. The good husband. The beautiful child. And a woman who cannot breathe.
Kent, England, 1924
At eighteen, in 1918, Madeleine de Dragoncourt walked out of her Swiss finishing school by night, stole her brother-in-law's car and drove alone to the frontlines in Picardy. She came home decorated, and everyone agreed she had been magnificent.
At twenty-five she is Mrs Gerald Hamilton of Lydden Valley — mistress of a fine house in East Kent, mother to a small daughter, and wife to a good, silent man sinking a fortune into a coal mine. Everyone agrees she has everything.
Nobody has thought to ask her what she is supposed to do now.
Madeleine has a war behind her and a life in drawing rooms in front of her. Restless, lonely and unable to become the woman everyone seems to expect, she begins to wonder whether the marriage she rushed into at eighteen is one she can bear to live at all.
Madeleine Hamilton is the second novel in Daughters of the Armistice series, a family saga following the women first encountered in The Resistance Girls series in the interwar period.
Genre: Historical
Kent, England, 1924
At eighteen, in 1918, Madeleine de Dragoncourt walked out of her Swiss finishing school by night, stole her brother-in-law's car and drove alone to the frontlines in Picardy. She came home decorated, and everyone agreed she had been magnificent.
At twenty-five she is Mrs Gerald Hamilton of Lydden Valley — mistress of a fine house in East Kent, mother to a small daughter, and wife to a good, silent man sinking a fortune into a coal mine. Everyone agrees she has everything.
Nobody has thought to ask her what she is supposed to do now.
Madeleine has a war behind her and a life in drawing rooms in front of her. Restless, lonely and unable to become the woman everyone seems to expect, she begins to wonder whether the marriage she rushed into at eighteen is one she can bear to live at all.
Madeleine Hamilton is the second novel in Daughters of the Armistice series, a family saga following the women first encountered in The Resistance Girls series in the interwar period.
Genre: Historical