City of Girls

**A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*****A BOOK CLUB PICK FROM THE QUEEN CONSORT'S READING ROOM***‘Stunning’ - Lisa Taddeo, author of THREE WOMEN‘Warm and wise' - Stephanie Merritt, Observer‘Glamorous, sexy, compelling’ - Dolly Alderton, Sunday Times‘I fell in love with Vivian from page one’ - Daisy Buchanan‘An education in love, and an iridescent delight’ - Rowan Pelling, SpectatorNew York, 1940. Young, glamorous and inseparable, Vivian and Celia are chasing trouble from one end of the city to the other. But there is risk in all this play – that’s what makes it so fun, and so dangerous. Sometimes, the world may feel like it’s ending, but for Vivian and Celia, life is just beginning.City of Girls is about daring to break conventions and follow your desires: a celebration of glamour, resilience, growing up, and the joys of female friendship – and about the freedom that comes from finding a place you truly belong. 'There is so much to love in City of Girls' - Independent'Wherever Liz Gilbert goes, we’ll follow' - Oprah magazine, Best book releases'Sensational' - Cosmopolitan'As bubbly as a champagne cocktail but with a real kick in the tail' - Sunday Express'Explores female desire in a radically refreshing way' - independent.co.uk'Brilliant on female friendship, desire and the influence a good mentor can bring to enrich a young woman's life' - Grazia Summer Reads

A glamorous, sexy, compelling romp of a novel about showgirls in New York in the 1940s. It is an addictive story, with vivid, brazenly drawn female characters, that brims with fascinating historical details of the time … Radical and refreshing to read, I adored this story, I fell in love with Vivian from page one, she has an utterly singular voice, and I was captivated by tcombination of glamour and grit - it's a dazzling escapist fantasy with characters and emotions that are thrillingly real, A glorious, multi-layered, emotionally astute celebration of womanhood … An eloquently persuasive treatise on the judgment and punishment of women, and a heartfelt call to reclaim female sexual agency, Glamorous and vivid, Breezily funny and vividly written, City Of Girls is a quietly radical celebration of feminine sexual inhibition that slips down as easily as a gin martini. Expect to see it on multiple beaches this summer

Elizabeth Gilbert is the number one bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, which has sold over 15 million copies worldwide and been translated into over 46 languages, and several other international bestselling books of fiction and non-fiction. Her story collection Pilgrims was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award; The Last American Man was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her follow-up memoir to Eat Pray Love, Committed, became an instant number one New York Times bestseller. She has published two novels, Stern Men and The Signature of All Things, which was longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. She lives in New Jersey. www.elizabethgilbert.com / @GilbertLiz

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