Moriarty has delivered the richest and realest possible heroine in Cora Carlisle, and an utterly moving tale. You’ll want a glass of gin with this, cold and neat-and keep them coming.Ī terrific historical novel set in 1922, when a Wichita housewife accompanies the young Louise Brooks (not yet a famous silent film star) to New York City, and has her mind and heart blown wide open. Marvelously plotted and oh, so sophisticated. This darkly delicious story is set on Martha’s Vineyard in the wake of the Second World War, and follows two cousins-Nick and Helena-as disastrous events lay their lives and families bare. Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klausmann, $30. McLain shares with Chatelaine her thoughts on perfect summer reads. Paula McLain won near universal acclaim for her novel The Paris Wife, written from the perspective of Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley Richardson, about their marriage and time in tumultuous 1920s Europe.
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