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She has no job, her beloved father Alfie has recently died and she’s all alone bar best friend Maggie. Lena Aldridge, at the age of twenty six, mixed race girl who is a quiet fighter, slowly losing of her hope to have a brighter future as she barely lands on theater roles, singing at a night club her best friend’s scumbag husband is owned, having a relationship with a married man, living in a shoe box room in Soho. There’s one particular scene — I cannot say much, because it’s spoiler — where a character tells something huge to our dear Lena and the whole thing is so badly written I actually had to stop and send a rant audio to Vitt, because it was so dumb.
Things happened that propelled the story and much of it involved Lena but she wasn't sleuthing it out. The pacing is also wrong, I don’t know what the editor was thinking when they said yes, this is good, no need to change anything.While the book did not leave me with a sense of astonishment and wonder, it did provide great insights into many factors of the times such as racism, drug addiction, drinking alcohol to excess, family dynamics, friendship, glamor, class dynamics, music, smoking, politics, attitudes about women, and much more. She likes Carrie who seems so young and controlled by her family, desperate for some company of her own age. Postage charges vary according to the weight of your items and the destination country, and are calculated at the checkout. I leaned my head toward the lighter's flame, and my hand grazed his as we protected the flame with our palms.
As the bodies begin to pile up I was asking questions of everyone in the party, even Lena herself - could she be and unreliable narrator and be doing this without really knowing? I suppose its a murder mystery and it did have the feel of an Agatha Christie novel at times but I saw it more as a social commentary piece and the prejudice of not only race but also class and indeed sex.Accompanying her is Charlie Bacon, the self-appointed promoter, who has promised her a role in a Broadway show due to the connections of her deceased father. It is clear from the beginning of the book that someone is plotting against Lena so you get what you expect when two of the men of the American family are murdered on ship. When a second murder eerily similar to the one haunting her steps takes place on the ship, Lena is suspicious of how they might be connected and what danger it might mean for her. The head of this wealthy family is their father Frank, now disabled due to a stroke (apoplexy) he was once an absolute tyrant and still uses the family riches to manipulate his children and grandchildren. She feels like she’s with her own kind - people without money and influence, people who scrape by, who play music and really let their hair down.
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