No Life for A Lady

Author/Guide: Hannah Dolby

Why a Booktrail?

1800s: Violet Hamilton is a woman who knows her own mind. Which, in Victorian Hastings, can make things a little complicated…

ISBN: 978-1804544365
Genre: Cosy crime, Historical

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What you need to know before your trail

At 28, Violet’s father is beginning to worry she will never find a husband. But every suitor he presents, Violet finds a new and inventive means of rebuffing.

Because Violet does not want to marry. She wants to work, and make her own way in the world. But more than anything, she wants to find her mother Lily, who disappeared from Hastings Pier 10 years earlier.

Finding the missing is no job for a lady, but when Violet hires a seaside detective to help, she sets off a chain of events that will put more than just her reputation at risk.

Can Violet solve the mystery of Lily Hamilton’s vanishing before it’s too late?

Locations

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England - Sussex - Hastings/St. Leonards On Sea
A: Hastings/St. Leonards On Sea Beach
B: Hastings Pier
C: Hastings Castle

England - Derbyshire
D: The Pavilion Gardens

England- London
E: Crystal Palace Park

Travel Guide

Hastings/St Leonards

St Leonards-on-Sea/Hastings is a town and seaside resort in Sussex, England.

You can see what it would have looked like in Victorian times – its still a place of elegant houses. There’s a central public garden, a hotel, an archery, assembly rooms and a church.

It’s very quaint in places and a typical seaside town so you can imagine the Victorians walking with their parasols and dipping their toes in the sea.

Buxton – Derbyshire

Buxton is a spa town in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, and is England’s highest market town. Perfect place for Violet!

Crystal Palace Park London

It was laid out in the 1850s as a pleasure ground, centred around the re-location of The Crystal Palace — the largest glass building of the time — from central London to this area.

The Palace had been relocated from Hyde Park after the 1851 Great Exhibition and rebuilt with some modifications and enlargements to form the centrepiece of the park, before being destroyed by fire in 1936.