The Kindness of Strangers by Emma Garman

🫧 Open on Bubbles This historical novel, set in 1952, begins dramatically with a dead or nearly dead body. Honor Wilson, a respectable widow, inherited a large Victorian house in London after her much-older husband died but little in the way of other assets. She takes in lodgers: George (Georgina), ostensibly studying art but actually posing in the nude as an artist’s model, a shady occupation for Lord Mountford-Owen’s daughter; Robbie, estranged from his wife, living in Honor’s attic; teenage Mina, trying