The Fifth Avenue Artists SocietyAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 31 May 2016
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The creative sisterhood ofLittle Women,the social scandal of Edith Wharton and the courtship mishaps of Jane Austen. . . .The Fifth Avenue Artists Societyis delightful.New York Daily News
In a family of four artistic sisters on the outskirts of Gilded Age New York high society, the oldestan aspiring writeris caught between the boy next door and a mysterious novelist who inducts her into Manhattans most elite artistic salon which has a seedy underbelly and secrets to hide.
The Bronx, 1891. Virginia Loftin, the boldest of four sisters in a family living in genteel poverty, knows what she wants most: to become a celebrated novelist despite her gender, and to marry Charlie, the boy next door and her first love.
When Charlie proposes instead to a woman from a wealthy family, Ginny is devastated; shutting out her family, she holes up and turns their story into fiction, obsessively rewriting a better ending. Though she works with newfound intensity, literary success eludes heruntil she attends a salon hosted in her brothers writer friend John Hoppers Fifth Avenue mansion. Among painters, musicians, actors, and writers, Ginny returns to herself, even blooming under the handsome, enigmatic Johns increasingly romantic attentions.
Just as she and her siblings have become swept up in the society, though, Charlie throws himself back into her path, and Ginny learns that the salons bright lights may be obscuring some dark shadows. Torn between two worlds that arent quite as shed imagined them, Ginny will realize how high the stakes are for her family, her writing, and her chance at love.
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