by Daisy Goodwin (Author)
Cora Cash has grown up in a world in which money unlocks every door. Her coming-out ball promises to be the most opulent of the gilded 1890s, a fitting debut for New York's 'princess'. Yet her fortune cannot buy her the one thing she craves -- the freedom to choose her own destiny. For Cora's mother has her heart on a title for her daughter, and in England -- where they are bound, to find Cora a husband -- impoverished blue bloods are queuing up for introductions to American heiresses. But the aristocracy is a treacherous realm. When Cora loses her heart to a man she barely knows, she soon realises that she is playing a game she does not fully understand -- and that her future happiness is the prize. Daisy Goodwin's sparking debut brings the fin de siecle romance between England and America to exuberant life.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Publisher: Headline Review
Published: 19 Aug 2010
ISBN 10: 0755348060
ISBN 13: 9780755348060
Prizes: Shortlisted for Galaxy National Book Awards: Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year 2011.