The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights, a review by Sherry

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The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights
Kitty Zeldis


337 pages
Harper Collins
Published December 6, 2022

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A great book about the lives, loves and losses of Catherine, Alice and Bea.  I so enjoyed reading about the fashion of the times in addition to their stories.  The 1920’s has always fascinated me since hearing my Grandma’s stories from her childhood.  NYC comes to life in this book.

I am always such a sucker for second chances and this one delivers.  While there are some deep topics explored, there is an undertone of hope.  I was a little emotional at times while I read this one.

I don’t read a lot of historical fiction, but thoroughly enjoyed this one.  If you like friendships, fashion and redemption, this one’s for you.

About the book:

“A haunting meditation on the bonds between mothers and daughters. Zeldis offers a fascinating look into historic New York City and New Orleans, and her skill as a storyteller is matched by her compassion for her characters. What a beautiful read.”—Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnolia Palace

“By turns heartbreaking and heartwarming, Kitty Zeldis’s The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights, set against the backdrop of the not-always-so-roaring Twenties, is an only-in-America story of reinvention, rising above tragedy, and finding family.”—Lauren Willig, New York Times bestselling author of Band of Sisters

For fans of Fiona Davis, Beatriz Williams, and Joanna Goodman, a mesmerizing historical novel from Kitty Zeldis, the author of Not Our Kind, about three women in 1920s New York City and the secrets they hold.

Brooklyn, 1924. As New York City enters the jazz age, the lives of three very different women are about to converge in unexpected ways. Recently arrived from New Orleans, Beatrice is working to establish a chic new dress shop with help from Alice, the orphaned teenage ward she brought north with her. Down the block, newlywed Catherine is restless in her elegant brownstone, longing for a baby she cannot conceive.

When Bea befriends Catherine and the two start to become close, Alice feels abandoned and envious, and runs away to Manhattan. Her departure sets into motion a series of events that will force each woman to confront the painful secrets of her past in order to move into the happier future she seeks.

Moving from the bustling streets of early twentieth century New York City to late nineteenth-century Russia and the lively quarters of New Orleans in the 1910s, The Dressmakers of Prospect Heightsis a story of the families we are born into and the families we choose, and of the unbreakable bonds between women.

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