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Ha! I loved this book. Sure it's syrupy and soapy and gossipy and bordering on chick lit, but I thought that it was very well done on audio. The two readers did a wonderful job, and I found myself consistently engrossed in the story about Babe Paley, her rich, socialite 5th avenue friends, and Truman Capote, whom they all embraced as their gay and funny friend well before he became famous.
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Dazzling with glamour, entertaining with gossipy deeds, provocative with emotional profundity, and gritty with the trappings of a society that valued group expectations this voyeuristic tale titillates and satisfies the reader. While reading this book I was drawn back to a time before social media when a pastime was reading the monthly magazines to see what the rich and famous were up to. I was drawn into the glamorous world of New York in the 1950s – 1970s when a closed group of women, known as
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