Though excited to live in a boarding house when most women stayed home, she quickly finds the world is less welcoming than anticipated. Eager for adventure, the young women pick up their skirts, move to boarding houses, take up steel cutters, and assume new identities as the “Tiffany Girls.”Tiffany Girls is the heartwarming story of the impetuous Flossie Jayne, a beautiful, budding artist who is handpicked by Louis to help complete the Tiffany chapel. Thanks to the publishers through Litfuse for my copy to review.From the bestselling author of It Happened at the Fair and Fair Play comes a compelling historical novel about a progressive “New Woman”-the girl behind Tiffany’s chapel-and the love that threatens it all.As preparations for the 1893 World’s Fair set Chicago and the nation on fire, Louis Tiffany-heir to the exclusive Fifth Avenue jewelry empire-seizes the opportunity to unveil his state-of-the-art, stained glass, mosaic chapel, the likes of which the world has never seen.But when Louis’s dream is threatened by a glassworkers’ strike months before the Fair opens, he turns to an unforeseen source for help: the female students at the New York Art Institute. Highly recommended historical romance reading! It’s just too bad each page takes you closer to the end. With historical depth, romantic symmetry and snappy dialogue, a story world has been created that made this reader ever so eager to spend all the time I could there. It’s one of those stories, you don’t skim.
To watch their dance of avoidance and falling in love, that tension that only comes from truly wanting and loving something you can’t have made the pages irresistible to stop turning. Our characters in Cullen and Della are captivating. There aren’t many books out there set in this period and it was fun to step into this world created by so many ingenious minds. I don’t think you could have a richer in culture and history setting than the World’s Fair.
Sweetly romantic, sassy and charming, I couldn’t have loved spending time with these characters more.
The novel, “It Happened at the Fair” has come once and I wish it would have lasted me those six months!įrom first chuckle to last sigh, this novel made my five-star book shelves and my favorites for 2013. The Chicago World’s Fair came once and last six months.
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