Fawcett begins in Greenpoint, the shabby riverside neighbour of Brooklyn which, he notes, is neither a point nor green. From that unpromising place his heroine sets out, with intelligence and a will of iron, to climb into the glittering world of Manhattan wealth and fashion, learning on the way what her ambition will cost her.
A sharp Gilded Age novel of manners for readers of Edith Wharton and Howells. Download the free EPUB.