Nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris arrives in New York City in the summer of 1940 with nothing but a sewing machine and a heretofore unindulged taste for adventure. Finding employment as seamstress at the Lily Playhouse, a charmingly down-at-heel Manhattan revue, Vivian quickly becomes the toast of the showgirls, transforming the tat only fit for the cheap seats into creations for goddesses. Adventure and opportunity blossom on every corner of this strange wartime city of girls, and Vivian and her girlfriends mean to down New York to its last drop. But there are hard lessons to be learned, and bitterly regrettable mistakes to be made. Vivian learns that to live the life she wants, she must live many lives, ceaselessly and ingeniously making them new.
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(@BloomsburyBooks, 7 April 2020, 480 pages, ebook, copy from the publisher via # NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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I loved the author's memoir Eat, Prey Love when I read it a couple of years ago (never seen the movie). I've not read anything else by her and had no idea she wrote fiction as well. I adored this book. I need to read more by this author. This book has been everywhere and sounded like fun, so I wanted to read it. It's one of my top read's this year so far. This is a fun, entertaining read. It's rare that I get as lost in a book as I did here. The simple language is very well done and makes the book easy to read. It spans many years in the character's lives. I cannot recommended this book enough.
