The Jewel Box

by Anna Davis Narrated by Eve Karpf

Overview

London, 1927: the city is buzzing with life. By day, Grace Rutherford is a copywriter at one of London's biggest advertising agencies but by night she is Diamond Sharp, author of a racy gossip column. When Grace meets two Americans who are sworn enemies, she is drawn into a web of secrets and lies which will change her life forever...

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

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 Sharp-a 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 Cramer-Dexter'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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Library Journal

Set in the Roaring Twenties, like Davis's The Shoe Queen, this novel moves from Paris to London. Diamond Sharp puts her chosen wild lifestyle to good use writing a flapper-around-town column for a London newspaper, while at home she is Grace Rutherford, financially supporting her mother and sister. As the consequences of leading a dual life begin to pile up like unpaid bills, she's presented with two gorgeous American men at odds with each other, who also pull her in different directions. VERDICT Historical novels set in the 1920s are popular as genre fiction (see, for example, Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher mystery series), and fascination with the period continues to grow. This literary chick-lit stand-alone could give book clubs (questions are included) or beach readers diversion and discussion aplenty.—Mary K. Bird-Guilliams, Wichita P.L., KS

—Mary K. Bird-Guilliams

Product Details

BN ID:	2940171135140
Publisher:	W. F. Howes Ltd
Publication date:	04/01/2010
Edition description:	Unabridged

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