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Touchstone
August 2018
On Sale: August 14, 2018
336 pages
ISBN: 1501165054
EAN: 9781501165054
Kindle: B01MG7NPAZ
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Historical
In this “glittering, Gatsby-esque” (Publishers
Weekly) novel, two generations of Quincy women—a
bewitching Jazz Age beauty and a young lawyer—are bound by a
spectacular and mysterious Indian necklace.Always the black
sheep of the tight-knit Quincy clan, Nell is cautious when
she’s summoned to the elegantly shabby family manor after
her great-aunt Loulou’s death. A cold reception from the
family grows chillier when they learn Loulou has left Nell a
fantastically valuable heirloom: an ornate necklace from
India that Nell finds stashed in a Crown Royal whiskey bag
in the back of a dresser. As predatory relatives circle and
art experts begin to question the necklace’s provenance,
Nell turns to the only person she thinks she can trust—the
attractive and ambitious estate lawyer who definitely is not
part of the old-money crowd. More than just a piece of jewelry, the necklace links Nell
to a long-buried family secret involving Ambrose Quincy, who
brought the necklace home from India in the 1920s as a
dramatic gift for May, the woman he intended to marry. Upon
his return, he discovered that May had married his brother
Ethan, the “good” Quincy, devoted to their father. As a
gesture of friendship, Ambrose gave May the necklace anyway. Crisp as a gin martini, fresh as a twist of lime, The
Necklace is the charming and intoxicating story “written
with wit, compassion, and a meticulous attention to period
and cultural detail” (Kirkus Reviews) of
long-simmering family resentments and a young woman who
inherits a secret much more valuable than a legendary necklace.
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