Madame Burova

'The 'Queen of Uplit' returns brilliantly to form with this gloriously good-
natured novel.' DAILY MAIL 'Supremely upliftng ...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 the lovers and the liars, the angels
and the devils, the dreamers and the 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 which 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 which echo down the years. And a wall of death rider is part of a love
story which will last through time.