Since November 2009Book News: The Debutante by Kathleen Tessaro
June 17th, 2009 by LeahKathleen Tessaro, author of Innocence, Elegance and The Flirt, returns with her fourth novel on October 1st which is titled The Debutante. There is no cover yet but the synopsis sounds good:
Can the secrets of one woman’s past change another woman’s future? Cate is a gifted young artist who survives in New York by producing remarkable copies of Old Masters.She arrives in London to stay with her aunt Rachel who owns an auction house, determined to leave the pain of her past behind.
Cate is sent to Devon with Rachel’s colleague Jack to value the contents of Endsleigh, the grand Georgian home of a former socialite. But inside, its once elegant interiors are now worn with age and dust. Then Cate discovers hidden in the back of one of the bookshelves, an old shoebox containing an exquisite pair of silk dancing shoes from the 1930′s along with a mysterious collection of objects - a diamond brooch, a photograph of a handsome young sailor, a dance card, and a beautiful pearl and emerald bracelet from Tiffany’s.
Unable to solve the questions in her own life, Cate quickly becomes engaged in solving the mystery of the shoe box and begins to unravel the story of Baby Blythe; bright, beautiful and reckless, she was the most famous debutante of her generation. The clues in the box reveal a tale of a dark, addictive love, a tale that will lead Cate to uncover some secrets of her own.
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Hey, this sounds really interesting actually! Have you read anything else by Ms Tessaro?
I have read The Flirt a year or so ago (must post the review here!) and enjoyed it, and have her first 2 on my shelf to read but haven’t gotten round to them yet! Her writing style is very good, so I’m looking out for this one.