Eileen Kennedy’s Reviews > The Manhattan Girls > Status Update

Cheating lovers, unwanted pregnancies, over-imbibing, looking for love, with the support of female friends. The setting: 1921 Manhattan. The women: Dorothy Parker and her three close pals. Sprinkled with familiar names from the worlds of publishing and Broadway, Gill Paul’s imagined account of what might have transpired in the days of the Algonquin is a delight.