For a small-town girl with big dreams in 1955, there is no address more desirable than New York's Barbizon Hotel -- the place where Grace Kelly lived when she first came to the big city. Laura, a patrician beauty from Connecticut, arrives with a magazine internship and dreams of becoming a writer ; hopelessly romantic Dolly is working the secretarial pool and looking to be swept off her feet; and Vivian, a red-headed British bombshell, yearns to make it as a singer while working nights as a cigarette girl. As the young women become friends, they embark on a journey of self-discovery that will take them from the penthouses of Park Avenue to the Beat scene of Greenwich Village to Atlantic City's Steel Pier -- and into the arms of very different men who will alter their lives forever. Perfect for fans of Mad Men, The Best of Everything and The Paris Wife , this is a novel filled to the brim with glamour, following the lives of three women as they are lured into the exhilarating, dazzling world of New York City.