Enter the lush world of 1950s New York City, where a generation of aspiring models, secretaries, and editors live side by side in the glamorous Barbizon Hotel for Women while attempting to claw their way to fairy-tale success in this debut novel from the national bestselling author of The Chelsea Girls .
Yet as Rose\'s obsession deepens, the ethics of her investigation become increasingly murky, and neither woman will remain unchanged when the shocking truth is finally revealed..
It\'s a combination too intoxicating for journalist Rose Lewin, Darby\'s upstairs neighbor, to resist--not to mention the perfect distraction from her own imploding personal life.
But rumors of Darby\'s involvement in a deadly skirmish with a hotel maid back in 1952 haunt the halls of the building as surely as the melancholy music that floats from the elderly woman\'s rent-controlled apartment.
Over half a century later, the Barbizon\'s gone condo and most of its long-ago guests are forgotten.
Yet when Darby befriends Esme, a Barbizon maid, she\'s introduced to an entirely new side of New York City: seedy downtown jazz clubs where the music is as addictive as the heroin that\'s used there, the startling sounds of bebop, and even the possibility of romance. --People When she arrives at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952, secretarial school enrollment in hand, Darby McLaughlin is everything her modeling agency hall mates aren\'t: plain, self-conscious, homesick, and utterly convinced she doesn\'t belong--a notion the models do nothing to disabuse.
Rich both in twists and period detail, this tale of big-city ambition is impossible to put down.
Enter the lush world of 1950s New York City, where a generation of aspiring models, secretaries, and editors live side by side in the glamorous Barbizon Hotel for Women while attempting to claw their way to fairy-tale success in this debut novel from the national bestselling author of The Chelsea Girls
