The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

This is a story set in a world that no longer exists, searching for a woman whose origins were shrouded in mystery. St Neots in the 1950s was a place where nothing happened and a rigid social heirarchy dominated.

Into this dull world came Pauline, rumoured to be a Russian princess, and respectably married as Mrs Dennisoun-Sword. But she was not what she seemed…

This is the story of a vanished society where ‘Everybody… could be placed to within a millimetre of their social class’. It is also the story of how Pauline broke out of that world and left without a backward glance.