DF Library Event: Colonel Brown's Brown Bag Book Group: The American Heiress - A Novel by Daisy Goodwin

Colonel Brown's Brown Bag Book Group

The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin
Thursday, November 15
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

For the month of November, we will be reading "The American Heiress" by Daisy Goodwin.

Be careful what you wish for. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts', suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham, married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England. Nothing is quite as it seems, however: Ivo is withdrawn and secretive, and the English social scene is full of traps and betrayals. Money, Cora soon learns, cannot buy everything, as she must decide what is truly worth the price in her life and her marriage.

Witty, moving, and brilliantly entertaining, Cora's story marks the debut of a glorious storyteller who brings a fresh new spirit to the world of Edith Wharton and Henry James.