The Engagements by Julie Courtney Sullivan - ISBN: 9781844089376
Paperback
A diamond’s sparkle hides love, ambition, and secrets through generations.

The Engagements

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    544 pages

  • Release Date

    11 February 2014

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Summary

1947: Mary Frances Gerety, a young copywriter in an eminent advertising agency, has to convince the world of two things - that marriage means a diamond ring on every woman’s finger, and that she is as good at her job as any man. And then, in one moment of brilliant inspiration, Mary Frances writes down four words which will achieve both her aims…

Moving from a Harvard swim-meet in 1927 to the three-martini lunches of 1940s advertising, from the back streets of 1980s Boston to an exqui…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781844089376
ISBN-10:1844089371
Author:Julie Courtney Sullivan
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Virago Press Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:544
Release Date:11 February 2014
Weight:363g
Dimensions:198mm x 163mm x 37mm
About The Author

Julie Courtney Sullivan

J. Courtney Sullivan is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Commencement and Maine. Maine was named a Best Book of the Year by Time magazine, and a Washington Post Notable Book for 2011. Courtney’s writing has also appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Chicago Tribune, New York magazine, Elle, Glamour, Allure, Men’s Vogue, and the New York Observer, among others. She is a contributor to the essay anthology The Secret Currency of Love and co-editor of Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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