White Birch

By Paul Edmund Lessard

A darkly humorous novel about the trappings of generational wealth and the human cost of ambition

The White Birch Hotel in the city of Tuffty Town teems with poorly kept secrets: exiled governments negotiating banished royals and messy revolutions; detectives tapping phones and trailing spies; paramours leaving tell-tale signs of furtive assignations in unlocked suites; captains of finance hatching plans in the grey haze of the smoking bar.

We find among this clamour Henry Huvvy: bon vivant, boulevardier, and mainstay of milieus both refined and ragtag. But when the lure of unattainable love drives him to build, with questionable tactics, a new empire of opulence, the fate of an erstwhile princess is set against his own.

White Birch introduces a vividly rendered cast of characters into a world at once familiar and delightfully uncanny.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1639882057
• ISBN13: 9781639882052
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Atmosphere Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"