Love at Paddington

On a Sunday afternoon, Praed Street quiets—until Gertie Higham tells Mr. Trew to take her to Hyde Park at exactly five minutes to five. “What’s the game?” he asks. She’ll tell him later.

In early twentieth-century London, Gertie helps her aunt keep a shop near Paddington Station, where racing travellers, tobacco jars and neighbourhood gossip crowd the day. Her aunt thinks it is time Gertie found a young man; Gertie has her own ideas, and Mr. Trew, with his teasing smile and ardent compliments, is plainly different from the others. But a hurried outing, a friend’s romantic misadventures and Gertie’s unspoken purpose hint that the heart rarely follows a tidy plan. What is she hoping will happen on that walk—and will Mr. Trew see her as she wants to be seen?

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