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18 September 2014

Weekly Feature: Once Upon a Story...


 'Once Upon a Story' is a weekly feature in which we go back in time and focus  on a specific novel that was released in the same month we're in right now (in this case May), but a few years back! It can be a women's fiction classic from the 1990's or perhaps a great chick lit read from 2011. I thought it would be nice to not just focus on recent releases, but also take the chance to jump back in time once a week and look back at wonderful reads that have been released over the years!

This week, we're travelling back to September 2008 to look back at...


One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over Manhattan's hippest neighbourhood, is a one-of-a-kind address, the sort of building you have to earn your way into - one way or another. For the women in Candace Bushnell's stellar new novel, One Fifth Avenue is at the heart of the lives they've carefully established, or hope to establish. 

There is Schiffer Diamond, a forty-something actress busily proving that women of style are truly ageless. There is spoiled, self-assured Lola, who is determined to launch herself into society and the arms of the right man by clawing a way into the building. Annalisa is the wife of a hedge fund manager and reluctant socialite, while bitter Mindy is married to an under-published writer and has been the family breadwinner for too long. And then there is Enid, the glamorous grande dame and gossip columnist, who has lived at One Fifth Avenue for decades, and sees everything there is to see from her penthouse view...

Candace Bushnell is the best-selling author of 'Sex and the City', a title which I'm sure all chick lit and women's fiction fans are familiar with! Candace also released some other books like the September 2008 novel 'One Fifth Avenue', which focuses on several women living on the desired One Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. I love Candace Bushnell's glamorous and entertaining stories and I'm sure lots of female readers will be able to enjoy 'One Fifth Avenue' as much as I did! 

Be sure to visit the blog next week for another blast from chick lit past with 'Once Upon a Story...'!

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