'This is that rare, precious and fabulous thing - a proper story, with characters you care about desperately and root for right to the end. I loved every page' Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife Set in a time of illicit thrills and daring glamour, a time when prohibition reigns and speakeasies thrive behind closed doors, The Chaperone tells Cora's story as she finally discovers who she is and - more importantly - who she wants to be. It will also, although she doesn't realize it yet, offer her the chance for a very different future. The Chaperone, which is our first book to be discussed in April 2018, is being adapted into a feature film by PBS Masterpiece. For Cora, whose formative years were spent at The New York Home for Friendless Girls, the trip offers the opportunity to discover the truth about her past. Soon to be a feature film from the creators of Downton Abbey starring Elizabeth McGovern, The Chaperone is a New York Times-bestselling novel about the woman who. The girl is Louise Brooks and, for her, New York offers a chance of stardom beneath the bright lights of Broadway. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. On a summer's day in 1922, Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, charged with the care of a stunningly beautiful young girl with a jet-black bob and wisdom way beyond her fifteen years. Soon to be a feature film from the creators of Downton Abbey
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