I’m a couple days late here but one of my favorite books this year, The Showgirl by Nicola Harrison, went on sale Tuesday. If you love historical women’s fiction, this is a book for you.
It’s 1927 and all Olive McCormick, a gifted singer and dancer from Minnesota, wants to do is become a showgirl in the Ziegfield Follies in New York. Her parents expect her to get married and become a housewife and they think her desire to be in the Follies is cheap and unacceptable. This doesn’t stop her, though. She boldly goes to NYC to meet Ziegfield where he tells her she’s not exactly what they’re looking for. This doesn’t stop her either and she works in another review show until she’s finally brought into the Ziegfield Follies.
All Olive wants is to sing and dance and be adored by the audiences. She doesn’t understand her family’s attitude towards what she is doing and she doesn’t understand the attitude of the other girls who see the show as a means to find a husband so they can get married and settle down with families.
When she meets the good looking and wealthy Archie Carmichael, she thinks she’s found the perfect man who loves her for who she is. Then she learns that he wants to ultimately have a family and she doesn’t want to tell him a secret she’s been keeping from him that she thinks will destroy their relationship.
This story is full of drama, thrills, excitement, glamour and secrets. It also gives a nice inside look at the Ziegfield Follies, a showgirl’s life, and life in the roaring twenties in New York City. This is a great book. Congratualaitons, Nicole Harrison on another excellent book. Montauk, also by this author, is another favorite of mine.
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