Description
San Francisco in the exploding Jazz Age of the 1920s; the era of moving pictures and the Model T Ford, of Prohibition and rapidly changing values; a time when a bright young woman could seize her chance and make her mark in a man’s world.
Hallie Duer, ambitious and determined, knows that this is her time and that she will find her place in the centre of her epoch. Under the tutelage of a legendary editor, she becomes a star reporter for San Francisco’s leading newspaper, presenting the human interest side of the day’s hottest stories. She covers the major events of the decade, from Dempsey prizefights to the death of President Harding, from the Fatty Arbuckle trial to Alice Longworth’s Washington parties.
In this uncommon love story Hallie, a consummate observer by profession, learns to become a passionate participant when she falls for a dynamic Irish lawyer, who is married but separated from his wife. Catholic convention and a secret from the past complicate the course of their involvement and this cool-headed, self-possessed young woman must experience pain, disappointment and forgiveness as part of the passion of her all-consuming love.
Compelling at every level, A Time Between is a triumph for an author whose richness of storytelling has been compared to Willa Cather and Colleen McCullough. With a sure touch she creates a dazzling, sweeping story of an extraordinary young woman at large in an era when anything goes.
Hard cover, 320 pages. In good to very good preloved condition with the exception of a worn dust cover.