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This Week’s Fiction Book:
The
American
Heiress
by Daisy Goodwin
"Anyone
suffering
Downton
Abbey
withdrawal
symptoms
(who
isn't?)
will
find
an
instant
tonic
in
Daisy
Goodwin's
The
American
Heiress.
The
story
of
Cora
Cash,
an
American
heiress
in
the
1890s
who
bags
an
English
duke,
this
is
a
deliciously
evocative
first
novel
that
lingers
in
the
mind."
--Allison
Pearson,
New
York
Times
bestselling
author
of
I
Don't
Know
How
She
Does
It
and
I
Think
I
Love
You
Be
careful
what
you
wish
for.
Traveling
abroad
with
her
mother
at
the
turn
of
the
twentieth
century
to
seek
a
titled
husband,
beautiful,
vivacious
Cora
Cash,
whose
family
mansion
in
Newport
dwarfs
the
Vanderbilts',
suddenly
finds
herself
Duchess
of
Wareham,
married
to
Ivo,
the
most
eligible
bachelor
in
England.
Nothing
is
quite
as
it
seems,
however:
Ivo
is
withdrawn
and
secretive,
and
the
English
social
scene
is
full
of
traps
and
betrayals.
Money,
Cora
soon
learns,
cannot
buy
everything,
as
she
must
decide
what
is
truly
worth
the
price
in
her
life
and
her
marriage.
Witty,
moving,
and
brilliantly
entertaining,
Cora's
story
marks
the
debut
of
a
glorious
storyteller
who
brings
a
fresh
new
spirit
to
the
world
of
Edith
Wharton
and
Henry
James.
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