A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow.
Genres
- Fiction
- Nineteen thirties
- Man-woman relationships
- Upper class
- Young women
- Large type books
- Fiction, historical
- Young women, fiction
- Wall street (new york, n.y.), fiction
- New york (n.y.), fiction
- Fiction, psychological
- Man-woman relationships, fiction
- Jeunes femmes
- Romans, nouvelles
- Classes supérieures
- Années trente (Vingtième siècle)
- Relations entre hommes et femmes
- Social life and customs
- Manners and customs
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- New York Times bestseller
- New York Times reviewed
- New Year
- Jealousy
- Cliques (Sociology)
- Roman
- Amerikanisches Englisch
- Fiction, historical, general
- Junge Frau
- Freundin
- Lebemann
- Schickeria
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