Pamela Hart: The Charleston Scandal
Prolific, multi-award winning Australia author, Pamela Hart, is back on the Convo Couch chatting about her latest release The Charleston Scandal. Pamela wears two author hats and the last time she was on the Convo Couch she was speaking with Kel as her alter ego, Pamela Freeman.
This time around Pamela gets under the layers of writing her latest book with Pamela Cook, why she pens under two names and how history continues to inspire and excite her like nothing else.
Here’s a sneak peek at The Charleston Scandal…
London, 1920s: Kit Scott, a privileged young Australian aiming to become a star, arrives in the city to find the Jazz Age in full swing. Cast in a West End play opposite another young hopeful, Canadian Zeke Gardiner, she dances blithely into the heady lifestyle of English high society and the London theatre set, mixing with a cast of real-life characters including Noel Coward, Fred Astaire and his sister, Adele.
When Kit is photographed dancing the Charleston alongside the Prince of Wales, she finds herself at the centre of a major scandal, sending the Palace into damage control and Kit to her aristocratic English relatives – and into the arms of the hedonistic Lord Henry Carleton. Amid the excesses of the Roaring Twenties, both Zeke and Kit are faced with temptations – and make choices that will alter the course of their lives forever.
The Charleston Scandal is largely inspired by the stories of Madge Elliot and Cyril Ritchards, Australian actors who went to London in the 1920s and became big stars. As Pamela says – “They were ‘Our Madge’ and ‘Our Cyril’, and eventually came home to get married in 1936. It was the biggest wedding Australia had ever seen – imagine if Nicole Kidman got married to Hugh Jackman. There were 5000 people in Hyde Park in Sydney waiting for them to come out of St Mary’s Cathedral.
If you love The Crown you'll love The Charleston Scandal.
And if you love a sneak peek behind the scenes of how a writer puts a book together you'll love this episode.
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