An unlikely suitor

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Book

Title:

An unlikely suitor

Author:

Moser, Nancy.

ISBN:

9780764207525

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

394 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

General Note:

Includes discussion questions.

Summary:

When dressmaker Lucy Scarpelli befriends socialite Rowena Langdon, she visits the Langdon mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, and falls for a high-society man, while Rowena struggles with her upcoming arranged marriage.

Subject(s):

Dressmakers -- Fiction.

Socialites -- Fiction.

Female friendship -- Fiction.

Courtship -- Fiction.

Social classes -- Fiction.

Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.

Italians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Newport (R.I.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Newport (R.I.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.

New York (State) -- New York

Rhode Island -- Newport

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Library	Call Number	Status
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Summary

Lucy Scarpelli, an Italian dressmaker from New York, befriends socialite Rowena Langdon as she's making her summer wardrobe. It's an unlikely friendship, but one that Rowena encourages by inviting Lucy to the family mansion in Newport, Rhode Island. Grateful for Lucy's skill in creating clothes that hide her physical injury, Rowena encourages Lucy to dream of a better future. One day Lucy encounters an intriguing man on the Cliff Walk, and love begins to blossom. Yet Lucy resists, for what man will accept her family responsibilities? Rowena also deals with love as she faces a worrisome arranged marriage to a wealthy heir. And Lucy's teenage sister, Sofia, takes up with a man of dubious character. All three women struggle as their lives, and those of each unlikely suitor, become intertwined in a web of secrets and sacrifice. Will any of them find true happiness? This book was named to Booklist's "Top 10 Romances of 2011"

Author Notes

Nancy Moser is the author of over twenty novels, including Mozart's Sister, Just Jane, and Christy Award finalist Washington's Lady . She's earned a degree in architecture, traveled extensively in Europe, and has performed in numerous theaters, symphonies, and choirs. She paints canes, kills all her houseplants, and is a fan of anything antique--humans included.

Reviews (1)

Booklist Review

*Starred Review* In another tale of strong women, Nancy Moser (Masquerade, 2010) takes readers once again to the harsh life of industrialized nineteenth-century New York. With skillful hands and quick thinking, Italian immigrant and dressmaker Lucy Scarpelli helps her mother and sister as they find work in a prominent dress shop. The Scarpellis' new life puts them in contact with New York's elite, and Lucy soon finds herself in an unlikely friendship with Rowena, a socialite in need of a special summer wardrobe for her stay in Newport, Rhode Island. Through a creative orchestration, Lucy and her family become employed by Rowena at her Newport mansion to assist her with their fashionable custom garment designs. As romances bud for Lucy, her sister Sofia, and Rowena, decisions must be made that could change the course of their lives forever. Motifs of friendship that defies cultural boundaries and secret, forbidden love are laced with moments of intensity as danger threatens the lives of the Scarpelli women. Christy Award-winning Moser excels at vivid historical settings (here including pictorial examples of nineteenth-century fashion) and compelling stories featuring resilient, uncompromising heroines.--Ponder, Elizabet. Copyright 2010 Booklist