Seven Minutes in Heaven

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Seven Minutes in Heaven opens in London on Wednesday, April 15, 1801, introducing Eugenia Snowe, proprietor of an elite governess agency whose livelihood depends on strict decorum and carefully guarded anecdotes. Expertise once destined to entertain at dinner becomes a private burden, as Eugenia must suppress laughter while handling bizarre, high-society incidents. The narrative begins with the arrival of a dressed-up boy and his anxious mother, escalating social intrigue and comic tension. Chapter listings, dedication, acknowledgments, and author/publisher materials frame the novel.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryStory & Novel

FormatPDF

Pages292

Reading Time7 h 30 min

AccessFree to download

Dedication This book is dedicated to my eldest niece, Nora, who has not only gobbled up my books, but given me inestimable help with plot points. Her taste is flawless: if she begins running in circles, clutching manuscript pages, and threatening to murder me, I know a book will succeed. Thankyou, Sweetheart! Contents Cover Title Page Dedication Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Chapter Nineteen Chapter Twenty Chapter Twenty-one Chapter Twenty-two Chapter Twenty-three Chapter Twenty-four Chapter Twenty-five Chapter Twenty-six Chapter Twenty-seven Chapter Twenty-eight Chapter Twenty-nine Chapter Thirty Chapter Thirty-one Chapter Thirty-two Chapter Thirty-three Chapter Thirty-four Chapter Thirty-five Chapter Thirty-six Chapter Thirty-seven Chapter Thirty-eight Chapter Thirty-nine Chapter Forty Chapter Forty-one Chapter Forty-two Chapter Forty-three Chapter Forty-four Chapter Forty-five Epilogue Naughty Children, Pets Rats, and Pornographic Cigar Boxes A Note from Eloisa Acknowledgments Announcement to Wilde in Love Excerpt from Wilde in Love About the Author By Eloisa James Copyright About the Publisher Chapter One Wednesday, April 15, 1801 Snowe’s Registry Office for Select Governesses 14 Cavendish Square London Nothing ruins a dinner party like expertise. A lady who has attended fourteen lectures about Chinese porcelain will Ming this and Tsing that all evening; a baron who has published an essay about vultures in a zoological magazine will undoubtedly hold forth on the unpleasant habits of carrion-eaters. Eugenia Snowe’s area of expertise, on the other hand, would have made dinner guests howl with laughter, if only it were appropriate to share. For example, she knew precisely how the Countess of Ardmore’s second-best wig had made its way onto the head of a terrified piglet, which dashed across the terrace when the vicar was taking tea. She knew which of the Duke of Fletcher’s offspring had stolen a golden toothpick and an enameled chamber pot and, even better, what he had done with them. Not only did she have to keep those delicious details to herself, she couldn’t even burst into laughter until she was in private. As the owner of the most elite agency for governesses in the whole of the British Isles, she had to maintain decorum at all times. No laughing! Not even when her housemaid ushered in a boy wearing a brocade curtain pinned like a Roman toga—although the gleaming blue that coated his arms and face clashed with the senatorial drape of the curtain. The boy’s mother, Lady Pibble, trailed in after him. Eugenia didn’t see many blue boys in the course of a day, but she often saw mothers with the hysterica

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