![]() ![]() Rose Lewin, a journalist, is living at the Barbizon, which now houses condos, and working on a story about the hotel’s earlier, more glamorous days. Darby’s story is intertwined with another, set more than 50 years later. She even convinces the shy Darby to perform at a nightclub. As the two become friends, Esme draws Darby into an underworld of jazz and drugs. She’s lonely and struggling when she meets Esme, a young maid who works at the hotel. By some administrative fluke, Darby is placed on a floor of aspiring models, among whom she doesn’t exactly feel at home. She moves into the Barbizon Hotel for Women, famed residence for luminaries such as Grace Kelly, Lauren Bacall, and others. Her father has died, her mother remarried, and Darby, who doesn’t expect much in the way of marriage prospects, would like to find a way to support herself. ![]() ![]() In 1952, she moves to New York to enroll in secretarial school. A debut novel about the renowned Barbizon Hotel and the generations of women who might have lived there.ĭarby McLaughlin is a plain girl from a small Ohio town. ![]()
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