Mildred Pierce Maurice Leblanc Galileo FF Paperback 2022 Journalist Philip Dryden is shocked

Journalist Philip Dryden is shocked to be informed by police that his father has been killed in a car accident - he drowned during the fenland floods of 1977

and good humour

Cambridge University is in dire financial straits: the town's landlords are demanding an extortionate rent rise for the students' hostels

and Severus's close friend Plautianus has his own ideas about the succession

not one who's constantly swooning over his pretty young constable

Mildred Pierce Maurice Leblanc Galileo FF Paperback 2022 Journalist Philip Dryden is shockedThe story of a determined and ambitious woman who, after her feckless husband abandons her, builds a successful business to ensure the future of her pampered and selfish daughter. But she isn't prepared for the intrigues and devastating betrayals of those closest to her.