![]() ![]() Skirmish with a hotel maid back in 1952 haunt the halls of the buildingĪs surely as the melancholy music that floats from the elderly woman’s But rumors of Darby’s involvement in a deadly Half a century later, the Barbizon’s gone condo and most of its long-ago Sounds of bebop, and even the possibility of romance. Music is as addictive as the heroin that’s used there, the startling Yet when Darby befriends Esme, a Barbizon maid, she’s introduced to anĮntirely new side of New York City: seedy downtown jazz clubs where the Hall mates aren’t: plain, self-conscious, homesick, and utterlyĬonvinced she doesn’t belong-a notion the models do nothing to disabuse. She arrives at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952, secretarial schoolĮnrollment in hand, Darby McLaughlin is everything her modeling agency Secret buried deep within the Barbizon’s glitzy past. Where a present-day journalist becomes consumed with uncovering a dark Stunning debut novel pulls readers into the lush world of New YorkĬity’s glamorous Barbizon Hotel for Women, where a generation ofĪspiring models, secretaries, and editors lived side-by-side whileĪttempting to claw their way to fairy-tale success in the 1950s, and ![]()
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