City of Girls: The Sunday Times Bestseller: Elizabeth Gilbert: Bloomsbury Publishing

City of Girls

The Sunday Times Bestseller

City of Girls

The Sunday Times Bestseller

Description

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**A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER**
***A BOOK CLUB PICK FROM THE QUEEN CONSORT'S READING ROOM***
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'Stunning' - Lisa Taddeo, author of THREE WOMEN

'Warm and wise' - Stephanie Merritt, Observer

'Glamorous, sexy, compelling' - Dolly Alderton, Sunday Times

'I fell in love with Vivian from page one' - Daisy Buchanan

'An education in love, and an iridescent delight' - Rowan Pelling, Spectator
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New York, 1940. Young, glamorous and inseparable, Vivian and Celia are chasing trouble from one end of the city to the other. But there is risk in all this play – that's what makes it so fun, and so dangerous. Sometimes, the world may feel like it's ending, but for Vivian and Celia, life is just beginning.

City of Girls is about daring to break conventions and follow your desires: a celebration of glamour, resilience, growing up, and the joys of female friendship – and about the freedom that comes from finding a place you truly belong.
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'There is so much to love in City of Girls' - Independent
'Wherever Liz Gilbert goes, we'll follow' - Oprah magazine, Best book releases
'Sensational' - Cosmopolitan
'As bubbly as a champagne cocktail but with a real kick in the tail' - Sunday Express
'Explores female desire in a radically refreshing way' - independent.co.uk
'Brilliant on female friendship, desire and the influence a good mentor can bring to enrich a young woman's life' - Grazia Summer Reads

Product details

Published	02 Jun 2020
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	512
ISBN	9781526624901
Imprint	Bloomsbury Publishing
Dimensions	198 x 129 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert is the Number One New York Times…

A glamorous, sexy, compelling romp of a novel about showgirls in New York in the 1940s. It is an addictive story, with vivid, brazenly drawn female characters, that brims with fascinating historical details of the time … Radical and refreshing to read

Dolly Alderton, Sunday Times
I adored this story, I fell in love with Vivian from page one, she has an utterly singular voice, and I was captivated by tcombination of glamour and grit - it's a dazzling escapist fantasy with characters and emotions that are thrillingly real

Daisy Buchanan
A glorious, multi-layered, emotionally astute celebration of womanhood … An eloquently persuasive treatise on the judgment and punishment of women, and a heartfelt call to reclaim female sexual agency

Sam Baker, Guardian
Glamorous and vivid

Independent, Top 15 novels of the year so far
Breezily funny and vividly written, City Of Girls is a quietly radical celebration of feminine sexual inhibition that slips down as easily as a gin martini. Expect to see it on multiple beaches this summer

Claire Allfree, Metro
A rollicking, beautifully rendered ride of glitter and fun … Gilbert's novel is something of a masterpiece of flapdoodle itself … Gilbert has a knack for storytelling and her plot doesn't so much twist as twirl, high-kicking all the way … A rambunctious anthem to living a life joyous and satisfyingly full - and that deserves an ovation

Evening Standard