โ Scribed by Anna Davis
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Sex and the City meets London's Roaring '20s in Davis's satisfying fifth novel. Grace Rutherford leads a double life: by day she's an advertising copywriter supporting a widowed sister and mother. By night, she's Diamond Sharpa newspaper gossip columnist and glamorous lady about town. She adores her single status until she meets mysterious American author Dexter O'Connell, with whom she begins a steamy cat-and-mouse affair that turns her world upside down. The trouble? She's concurrently swept off her feet by her charming and equally delicious neighbor John CramerDexter's bitter enemy. Grace is determined to get to the bottom of their hatred for each other. But whose story should she believe? To make matters worse, her sister is possibly falling for John, too. When Grace delves into their closets looking for skeletons, she realizes she must ultimately face her own. Davis, best known for The Shoe Queen, delights once again with this romp through pre-Manolo chick lit turf. (June)
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Grace is aniconic flapper in the Roaring Twenties,burning the candle at both ends between her job as a copywriter in a London ad agency and a newspaper columnistunder the pen nameDiamond Sharp. Her frantic pace and upbeatwriting keep her from thinking about the responsibilities at home, where shetakes care of her mother, widowed sister, and young niece and nephew. Thingsbecome even more hectic when she spots a gorgeous American author, and taunts him in her columns until they start a fiery love affair.Dexteris as mysterious and dramatic as the book that made himfamous. In contrast toher tempestuous relationship with Dexter, she meets her neighbor John Cramer, also an American, who writes for the New York Times. There is bad blood between the two men, and Grace is torn between her Devil Dexter and his antagonist, John, who may have captured her sisters heart.Davis presents a rip-roaring read filled with enticing characters emulatingthe American literati living it upoverseas after the First World War. --Patty Engelmann
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