02557cam a2200409 4500 759810830 TxAuBib 20210818120000.0 201224s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780063119277 hbk. $27.99 0063119277 hbk. $27.99 (OCoLC)1227976411 YDX eng rda YDX BDX YDX CNNWP PX0 OCLCO IEP OCLCO ILC VP@ UAP TxGR TxAuBib Hogan, Ruth, author. Madame Burova. The moon, the stars, and Madame Burova [Book] : a novel / Ruth Hogan. First U.S. edition. New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021] 288, 6 pages ; 24 cm. Originally published as Madame Burova in the United Kingdom in 2021 by Two Roads. "P.S. Insights, Interviews & More..."--Back cover. Includes author biography and reading group guide (pages 2-6 at end of work). After a lifetime of keeping other people's secrets, fortune teller Madam Burova, before she can have a little piece of life for herself, must fulfill a promise made in the 1970s, when she and her girlfriends were carefree, with their whole lives still before them. Brighton. After inheriting her mother's fortune-telling business as a young woman, Imelda Burova has spent her life on the Brighton pier practicing her trade. After a lifetime of keeping other people's secrets, Madam Burova is ready to have a little piece of life for herself. But she still has one last thing to do: fulfill a promise made in the 1970s, when she and her girlfriends were carefree, with their whole lives still before them. In London, Billie has lost her university job, her marriage, and her place in the world when a sudden and unlikely discovery leaves her very identity in question. Determined to find answers, she must follow a trail which leads to Brighton, the pier, and directly to Madame Burova's door. -- adapted from jacket. 20210818. Clairvoyants Fiction. Fortune-tellers Fiction. Tarot Fiction. Older women Fiction. Adoptees Fiction. Foundlings Fiction. Birthparents Fiction. Promises Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Brighton (England) Fiction. RV8