Book description
In the Sixties, Athene Forster is the most glamorous girl of her generation. Nicknamed the Last Deb, she is also beautiful, spoilt and out of control. When she agrees to marry dashing young heir Douglas Fairley-Hulme her parents breathe a sigh of relief. But within two years rumours have begun…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Peacock Emporium as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
If I could, I would have popped into The Peacock Emporium for a spot of tea and to be a fly on the wall as the neighborhood gathers in the newest shop on the block and soon become intertwined in one another’s lives.
This dual timeline novel lured me in with its luxurious descriptions of historical homes, parties, and secrets while its present-day storyline showcased how the perception of a difference in class and societal standing can put a wedge between even the wealthiest of families.
Love, loss, forgiveness, family, and coming to terms with who you are and what…
If you love The Peacock Emporium...
Dear Orchid
Pinnacle Achievement Award Winner Literary Collections - IAN Book of the Year Finalist, Multicultural Nonfiction
#1 best-selling book in Amazon's Letters and Correspondence category
“Powerful, haunting, and precise. Each of the essays and stories in Van Den Hende’s collection—whether a three-page reverie of childhood’s joys and tragedies or a candid…
Want books like The Peacock Emporium?
Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 90 books like The Peacock Emporium.
Share your top 3 reads of 2025!
And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.
1,340
readers submitted
so far, will you?
📚 If you like The Peacock Emporium, you might also like...
Beautiful and Terrible Things
Charley Byrne isn’t really living. She hunkers down in her apartment above the bookstore she manages, until quirky activist Xander Wallace lures her out of social exile with the prospect of friendship and romance. Charley joins Xander’s circle of diverse friends and thrives, even leaving her comfort zone to join…
The Pact
The Pact is a contemporary fiction novel about Australian sisters, Samantha and Annie, who are doubles tennis champions. This story amplifies the usual sibling issues and explores their professional partnership and personal relationships – similarities, differences, motivation, competition, abandonment, and grief – and how they each respond to the stress…
