One Sunday Morning: A Novel

Description

One Sunday morning four women at a bridge party in the elegant Gramercy Park Hotel see a beautiful young woman whom they all know leaving a nearby hotel with a man who is not her husband. The sight of twenty-year-old Lizzie Carswell with Billy Holmes is shocking and potentially ruinous. And though the ladies do not know the whole story -- and despite their mutual promise to keep what they've seen to themselves -- it is only a matter of time before one of them talks . . . with heartbreaking consequences for them all. In One Sunday Morning, author Amy Ephron brilliantly navigates the social contradictions of Jazz Age New York society and brings a remarkable time and place to glorious life with a riveting drama of gossip, indiscretion, secrets, and betrayal.

A novelist and screenwriter, Amy Ephron is the author of A Cup of Tea, White Rose, Cool Shades, Bruised Fruit, and Biodegradable Soap. She lives in Los Angeles with her three children.

"Ephron maintains the suspense through this evocative, smartly paced novel of romantic intrigue." -- People "Ephron writes beautifully . . . a Jazz Age take on Sex and the City." -- Entertainment Weekly "Ephron has written another historical novel destined to please her fans. . . . it will entertain you." -- Seattle Times "A jewel of a book." -- Reader's Digest "Amy Ephron is our Edith Wharton. . . . [she] is a master storyteller" -- Bookreporter.com "An exquisite, Edith Wharton-esque novel" -- Newhouse News Service "Book clubs will treasure the precisely rendered atmosphere in this jewel of a novel." -- Chattanooga Times Free Press "An elegant fable . . . a charming package, a smooth blend of period romance and contemporary wisdom." -- Miami Herald