Madame Burova: the new novel from the author of The Keeper of Lost Things

Madame Burova, a tarot reader, palmist, and clairvoyant, is retiring and leaving her booth on the Brighton seafront after fifty years. She has seen the lovers, liars, angels, and devils, and her cards have unmasked them all. Billie has lost her university job, marriage, and place in the world when she discovers something that leaves her identity in question. Ruth Hogan conjures a magical world of 1970s holiday camps and seaside entertainers, eccentrics, heroes, and villains, and a wall of death rider is part of a love story that will last through time.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 17 March 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press

The Queen of Uplit returns triumphantly with this delightful and heartwarming novel.

DAILY MAIL

Supremely uplifting...an absolute gem! - MIKE GAYLE

Stunning, immersive, and absolutely wonderful! - ANNIE LYONS

Woke up early to finish this breathtakingly beautiful story... absolutely wonderful! - CELIA ANDERSON

Blooming with wonderful, vibrant, and charismatic characters! PRIMA

Madame Burova - Tarot Reader, Palmist, and Clairvoyant is retiring and leaving her booth on the Brighton seafront after fifty years.

Imelda Burova has spent a lifetime keeping other people's secrets, and her silence has come at a price. She has seen lovers, liars, angels, devils, dreamers, and fools. Her cards had unmasked them all, and her cards never lied.

But Madame Burova is weary of other people's lives, their ghosts from the past, and other people's secrets. She needs rest and a little piece of life for herself. Before that, however, she has to fulfill a promise made a long time ago.

She holds two brown envelopes in her hand, and she has to deliver them.

In London, it is time for another woman to make a fresh start. Billie has lost her university job, her marriage, and her place in the world when she discovers something that leaves her very identity in question. Determined to find answers, she must follow a trail that might just lead right to Madame Burova's door.

In a story spanning over fifty years, Ruth Hogan conjures a magical world of 1970s holiday camps and seaside entertainers, eccentrics, heroes, and villains, the lost, and the found.

Young people, with their lives before them, make choices that echo down the years.

And a wall of death rider is part of a love story that will last through time.

Weight: 258g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529373332