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I couldnt cook but I could sew. It would have been better the other way around. So begins this witty and transporting new novel by the acclaimed Erin McGraw, introducing us to Nell Plat, who, at age seventeen, finds herself unhappily married and the mother of two baby girls. For a young woman with a hunger for excitement and glamour, Kansas circa 1900 offers nothing but a flat horizon. Still, Nell find some joy sewing and making dresses for women in town. Dreaming over her sewing machine, she begins to entertain ambitions she knows she cannot share. Based on Erin McGraws grandmothers life, here is the storytold in Nells own irreverent and wise voiceof what happens when Nell runs away to Los Angeles in the year 1901 as the new motion-picture industry is just taking root. Nell marries again, has a daughter, and goes into business as a costumer in the Hollywood of the Roaring Twenties, renaming herself Madame Annelle. But a knock on the door by her grown daughters, precisely the thing she has most feared, threatens to take apart the new life Nell has so carefully built. Forced to confront the legacy of the life she believed she had shed, Nell struggles to make the right choices the se

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Author

McGraw, Erin

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780618386284

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Psychology

Rating

3.39 / 5 (363 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14