The Chaperone

On a summer's day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that's not as perfect as it seems and a past that she buried long ago. She is charged with the care of a stunning young girl with a jet-black fringe and eyes wild and wise beyond her fifteen years. 

The girl is Louis Brooks and, for her, New York offers the chance of stardom beneath the bright lights of Broadway. For Cora, whose formative years were spent at The New York Home for Friendless Girls, the trip offers the opportunity to discover the truth about her past. It will also, although she doesn't realise it yet, offer her the chance for a very different future.

Format: Softback - Good used condition

Publisher: Penguin Group

Published: 2012

ISBN: 9780718159955