Simon & Schuster
January 2023
On Sale: January 10, 2023
336 pages ISBN: 1982171642 EAN: 9781982171643 Kindle: B08VJLKRLT Trade Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
In this “glorious dance through the traditional
glamour and suffocating expectations of a bygone era”
(Genevieve Graham, USA TODAY bestselling author),
a group of young women are swept up in a life-changing
journey as they become three of the last debutantes to be
presented to Queen Elizabeth II.
When it’s
announced that 1958 will be the last year debutantes are to
be presented at court, thousands of eager mothers and
hopeful daughters flood the palace with letters seeking the
year’s most coveted invitation: a chance for their
daughters to curtsy to the young Queen Elizabeth and
officially come out into society.
In an effort to
appease her traditional mother, aspiring university student
Lily Nichols agrees to become a debutante and do the Season,
a glittering and grueling string of countless balls and
cocktail parties. In doing so, she befriends two very
different women: the cool and aloof Leana Hartford whose
apparent perfection hides a darker side and the ambitious
Katherine Norman who dreams of a career once she helps her
parents find their place among the elite. But the glorious
effervescence of the Season evaporates once Lily learns a
devastating secret that threatens to destroy her entire
family.
“Woven with heartfelt emotion, this
novel is a captivating, unforgettable story of one
woman’s journey to find love, truth, and, most
importantly, herself” (Kelly Bowen, author of The
Paris Apartment) in midcentury Great Britain.
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