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Title: Ike & Kay
Author: MACMANUS JAMES
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 13/06/2019
Imprint: DUCKWORTH
Price: $20.00
Publishing status: Active
An epic love story on the fogbound streets of London reeling from the Blitz.
Acclaimed author James MacManus conjures a compelling historical novel based on the true story
of the secret love affair at the heart of the Second World War. It is 1942, and war-battered
London plays host to the imposing figure of General Ike Eisenhower on a vital mission for the US
army. Kay Summersby, an ambulance driver, is chosen to be his aide, a role that will change her
life forever. Amid the carnage a secret affair unfolds and rumours of Ike’s infidelity reach across
the ocean to Washington and worse yet, to his wife. In a time where scandal and war threaten to
break them apart, can Kay hold on to the man she loves?
“Highly readable … successfully combines intimacy with an awar eness of the wider picture.’ –
The Sunday Times
James MacManus is the managing director of the TLS. James’s first screenplay about the life of
George Hogg, The Children of the Silk Road, was made into a film starring Jonathan Rhys
Meyers. He has since written historical novels Black Venus, Sleep in Peace Tonight and Midnight in
Berlin (Duckworth)
ISBN: 9780715652954