The Songwriter

Beatrice Colin

New York 1916. Monroe Simonov a song-plugger from Brooklyn is in love with a Ziegfeld Follies dancer who has left him for California. Inez Kennedy a fashion model in a department store has just one season remaining to find a wealthy husband before she must return to the Midwest. Anna Denisova a glamorous political exile gives lectures and writes letters while she waits for the Russian people to overthrow their Tsar.

Although the world is changing faster than they could ever have imagined Monroe Inez and Anna discover that they are still subject to the tyranny of the heart. In this richly atmospheric and deftly plotted novel their paths cross and re-cross leaving a trail of passion infidelity and betrayal before hurtling towards an explosive climax

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