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Last book mail of June 2025. On a perfectly sunny day, no less. #bookmail #blameitonlitsy

This was first published in 1929 and was a bestseller. Ursula Parrott wrote many books and stories, but has been virtually forgotten. I learned about her and this book on a podcast called Lost Ladies of Lit, which I highly recommend. This book is really good and I wish more of her work would be brought back into print.

They‘re certainly pushing this novel of a 1920s divorcee. It was in the thriller section in WH Smiths. However, the blurb made it sound like something else. In both seller and buyer, confusion reigns but I thought maybe it was an edgy, impossible to categorise, rediscovered curio plus I have a soft spot for women behaving badly stories so I took a punt. Sadly I can‘t get past the first 30 pages. It‘s American Psycho without the murders or irony

Very interesting insight male/female relationships in 1920s New York - found myself a little irritated by the characters but it‘s an era thing ! Overall I enjoyed it .

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Well if this didn't blow the doors off my conception of the 20s. Riveting, pacey, voicey as hell. Not all the concepts have aged well, of course, but I still loved the hell out of Pat. #classics

Read Like the Wind: “The story concerns Patricia, a sexy blunt object whose life in New York City circa Prohibition revolves around writing ad copy, drinking rivers of Scotch and negotiating life as an ex-wife at the wizened old age of 24. This edition features a gorgeous introduction by Alissa Bennett.
Read if you like: Being wicked, shopping, breakfast for dinner, bearing distress with dignity, Elizabeth Jane Howard‘s “The Cazalet Chronicles”