Sunday Times Summer Roundup by Nicolette Jones
The Luxe by Anna Godbersen (Puffin £6.99) is sumptuous and glossy like the ball gown on its cover. It is Edith Wharton meets Desperate Housewives, a tale of convoluted relationships in New York society at the turn of the century. About rivalry in love and a mysterious death, it has just enough neatness of phrase to make it the better kind of schlock...
I haven't read this myself yet, but have dipped into it, and would agree with NJ in her reference to 'neatness of phrase'.
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