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The Girls at the Kingfisher Club: A Novel - Genevieve Valentine
The Girls at the Kingfisher Club: A Novel
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From award-winning author Genevieve Valentine, a stunning reimagining of the fairytale of the Twelve Dancing Princesses as flappers during the Roaring Twenties in Manhattan.Jo, the first born, “The General” to her eleven sisters, is the only thing the Hamilton girls have in place of a mother. She... show more
From award-winning author Genevieve Valentine, a stunning reimagining of the fairytale of the Twelve Dancing Princesses as flappers during the Roaring Twenties in Manhattan.Jo, the first born, “The General” to her eleven sisters, is the only thing the Hamilton girls have in place of a mother. She is the one who taught them how to dance, the one who gives the signal each night, as they slip out of the confines of their father’s townhouse to await the cabs that will take them to the speakeasy. Together they elude their distant and controlling father, until the day he decides to marry them all off. The girls, meanwhile, continue to dance, from Salon Renaud to the Swan to the Funeral Parlor Supper Club and, finally, the Kingfisher, the club they come to call home. They dance until one night when they are caught in a raid, separated, and Jo is thrust face-to-face with someone from her past: a bootlegger named Tom whom she hasn’t seen in almost ten years. Suddenly Jo must weigh in the balance not only the demands of her father and eleven sisters, but those she must make of herself. With The Girls at the Kingfisher Club, award-winning writer Genevieve Valentine takes her superb storytelling gifts to new heights, penning a dazzling tale about sisterhood, freedom, and love in Jazz Age Manhattan.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9781476739083 (1476739080)
ASIN: 1476739080
Publisher: Atria Books
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
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Dispatches from Terabithia
Dispatches from Terabithia rated it
5.0 The Girls at the Kingfisher Club: A Novel
Loosely based upon the fairy tale 'Twelve Dancing Princesses.' Eldest sister Jo is the closest thing her eleven sisters have to a mother in a household run by a distant, controlling father. She teaches them to dance and herds them to and from the dance clubs to keep them safe and secret, until one d...
By Singing Light
By Singing Light rated it
5.0 The Girls at the Kingfisher Club
This is the story of twelve sisters, but mostly it is the story of Jo. This is the story of twelve sisters who escape from their home to go dancing until dawn. They have to escape, because they’re not allowed out, because their mother is dead and their father’s kindness is more terrifying than a...
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book reviews forevermore rated it
4.5 Lovely
Retelling something as familiar as a fairy tale can be a risky proposition. In some cases, magic can come out of the details as an author elaborates on a classic. For instance, I happen to love Robin McKinley’s book Beauty, a take on the old tale “Beauty and the Beast.” On the other hand, when she r...
100 Pages A Day...Stephanie's Book Reviews
100 Pages A Day...Stephanie's Book Reviews rated it
3.5 The Girls at the Kingfisher Club
A re-telling of the little known fairy tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses by the Brothers Grimm that has been set during Prohibition in New York City. Twelve sisters have been held hostage by a wealthy, business minded father who cared only to have a male heir. Disappointed by his multitude of dau...
Denise
Denise rated it
4.0 The Girls at the Kingfisher Club
Dancing was the only time any of them ever really smiled. They were never alive until the music was shaking the floor under their feet. This novel was a re-imagining of the fairytale "The Twelve Dancing Princesses." I can't comment on whether it was very similar to "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" a...
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