Daisy Goodwin’s American Heiress is the story of young Cora Cash, the wealthiest socialite in all of Newport just itching to escape the endless parade of social-climbing antics of her overbearing mother. As was common of wealthy Americans in the late 19th century, Cora’s parents move to England in order to secure their wealthy daughter the only thing that has escaped them: an English title, and therefore, respectability. It is there during a foxhunt with friends on a neighboring estate that Cora happens upon Ivo, […]
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford’s Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet was my book club’s selection for January and I was pretty excited to read it. With a World War II setting, Asian cultures, and forbidden love, I assumed it would be right up my alley. Well, you know what they say about assumptions… The novel opens with 50-something Henry Lee passing a crowd gathering outside a long-shuttered hotel in Seattle, the Panama Hotel. In the basement, the hotel’s new owners discovered hundreds of suitcases’ worth […]