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City Of Girls

By Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert takes us to New York in the summer of 1940 and to a world of theatre and show girls that I never wanted to leave. An epic, bold, affecting novel depicting the joy and heartache of a life well lived.
~ Her Majesty Queen Camilla
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Publish Date: 2019

New York, 1940. Vivian, a young girl exiled by her parents, arrives in the big city with her sewing machine. At the Lily Playhouse, a rather disreputable yet charming Manhattan revue theatre, she makes a new family and learns to embrace the life she wants to live. But to fully do so, there will be hard lessons to learn along the way.

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