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Today's Featured Title and Contest |
August 24, 2016 |
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This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we think is a great summer reading selection. Read more about it, and enter our Summer Reading Contest by Thursday, August 25th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE DOLLHOUSE by Fiona Davis, which is now available and is a Bookreporter.com Bets On selection. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
You can take a look at all the books we're giving away in this year's Summer Reading contests on our Pinterest page here.
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Today's Featured Book and Contest: THE DOLLHOUSE by Fiona Davis
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“The Dollhouse.... That’s what we boys like to call it.... The Barbizon Hotel for Women, packed to the rafters with pretty little dolls. Just like you.”
Fiona Davis’ stunning debut novel pulls readers into the lush world of New York City’s glamorous Barbizon Hotel for Women, where in the 1950s a generation of aspiring models, secretaries and editors lived side-by-side while attempting to claw their way to fairy-tale success, and where a present-day journalist becomes consumed with uncovering a dark secret buried deep within the Barbizon’s glitzy past.
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. 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.
Over half a century later, the Barbizon’s gone condo and most of its long-ago guests are forgotten. 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. 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. 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.
-Click here to read a review.
-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Click here to read Carol Fitzgerald's "Bookreporter.com Bets On" commentary on the book.
-Visit Fiona Davis' official website and Instagram.
-Connect with Fiona Davis on Facebook and Twitter.
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Click here to enter the contest by Thursday, August 25th at 11:59am ET. |
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