A gorgeous girl recalls her coming of age in her tiny, picturesque English village at the turn of the last century. After she opts out of a rural beauty pageant, her life—and its telling—begins to unravel. And it unravels into a multitude of extremely amusing, searingly beautiful strands that eventually lead her, and a troubled young man who befriends her, through the wall upholstered hellholes of modern Manhattan toward a heartrending and hugely satisfying climax that will almost literally blow your socks off.
"Fun, full-throttle stuff, which rather miraculously dresses down the pernicious personal-history trend while remaining bo
"Fun, full-throttle stuff, which rather miraculously dresses down the pernicious personal-history trend while remaining bo
