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Fans of Bridgerton will love thisexuberant novel of manners for our own gilded age Stacy Schiff author of Cleopatra as we follow the Wilcox familys journey through riches and ruin
Among New York Citys Gilded Age elite one family will defy convention
Helen Wilcox has one desire to successfully launch her daughters into society From the upper crust herself Helens unconventionalif happymarriage has made the girls social position precarious Then her husband gambles the family fortunes on an elevated railroad that he claims will transform the face of the city and the way the people of New York live but will it ruin the Wilcoxes first As daughters Jemima and Alice navigate the rise and fall of their familyeach is forced to reexamine who she is and even who she is meant to love
From the author of To Marry an English Lord an inspiration for Downton Abbey comes a charming and cutthroat tale of a world in which an invitation or an avoided glance can be the difference between fortune and ruin
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