A timely and beautiful story of female friendship and strength.
--Allison Pataki, New York Times bestselling author of The Queen's
Fortune
Martin deftly and exquisitely captures this historical moment. --Jillian
Cantor, USA Today bestselling author of In Another Time
In the glitz and glamor tradition of Beatriz Williams's Tiny Little
Thing and Fiona Davis's The Chelsea Girls, Danielle Martin's debut is
a love letter to...women (Greer Macallister, The Magician's Lie) that
illustrates the courage of women and the strength of sisterhood.
Welcome to the Starlite. Let your true self shine.
1962. In the middle of Brooklyn Heights sits the Starlite: boutique
dress shop by day, underground women's club by night. Started by the
shop's proprietor after her marriage crumbled, Madeline's social club
soon becomes a safe haven for women from all walks of life looking for a
respite from their troubled relationships and professional frustrations.
These after-hour soirées soon bring two very different women into
Madeline's life--Elaine, a British ex-pat struggling to save her
relationship, and Lisa, a young stewardess whose plans for the future
are suddenly upended--irrevocably changing all three women's lives in
ways no one could have predicted.
But when Madeline's ne'er-do-well ex-husband shows up again, the luster
of Starlite quickly dampens. As the sisterhood rallies around Madeline,
tension begins to eat at the club. When an unspeakable tragedy befalls
their sorority, one woman must decide whether to hide the truth from the
group or jeopardize her own hopes and dreams. Sure to appeal to readers
of Kathleen Tessaro and Suzanne Rindell, Glimmer As You Can captures
the heartbeat of an era and the ambitions of a generation of women
living in a man's world--a world threatened by a wave of change.
