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n nDo you live permanently in yellow evening frocks and court gowns, or have you anything else?n nAnnabel laughed shakily.n nOf course. My own clothes.n nThen go and put them on. Lovely ladies who fall over their trains need cocktails to restore them. And thats just what Im going to take you to have.n nAnnabel Brown has taken a job in the sewing room at Bertnas, a high-end dressmaker, to help her familys finances. When one of the mannequins employed downstairs quits unexpectedly, Tania Petoff, the shops owner, decides to try lovely Annabel in her place, to the chagrin of her catty fellow models. Annabels improved status leads to tension in her close-knit family, then (following a wardrobe malfunction) she catches the eye of wealthy Lord David de Bett-and the ire of the dreadful Honourable Octavia Glaye. How things work themselves out is as delicious a bit of frothy fun as one could well imagine.n nClothes-Pegs is the first of twelve charming, page-turning romances published under the pseudonym Susan Scarlett by none other than beloved childrens author and novelist Noel Streatfeild. Out of print for decades, they were rediscovered by Greyladies Books in the early 2010s, and Dean Street Press and Furrowed Middlebrow are delighted now to make all twelve available to a wider audience.n nA writer who shows a rich experience in her writing and a charm Nottingham Journaln
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