Book description
On a summer's day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita,
Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that's not as
perfect as it seems and a past that she buried long ago. She is
charged with the care of a stunning young girl with a jet-black fringe
and eyes wild and wise beyond her fifteen years. This girl is hungry
for stardom and Cora for something she doesn't yet know. Cora will be
many things in her lifetime - an orphan, a mother, a wife, a mistress
- but in New York she is a chaperone and her life is about to change.
It is here under the bright lights of Broadway, in a time when
prohibition reigns and speakeasies with their forbidden whispers
behind closed doors thrive, that Cora finds what she has been
searching for. It is here, in a time when illicit thrills and daring
glamour sizzle beneath the laws of propriety that her life truly
begins. It is here that Cora and her charge, Louise Brooks, take their
first steps towards their dreams.
Laura Moriarty earned a degree in social work before returning for
her M. A. in Creative Writing at the University of Kansas. She was the
recipient of the George Bennett Fellowship for Creative Writing at
Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. She lives with her daughter in
Lawrence, Kansas.
