Amazing holiday read alert!

I finished this back in May but have been rereading bits of it ever since. It is such an amazing book, one of those novels that has something so good on every page you want to write it down and reuse it in conversation or remember it. I absolutely loved it. It follows four young women in the mid-Fifties making their way in publishing in New York. They are all different in various ways: one a smart girl from upstate, one a country girl from Colorado who just wants to find a husband, one a beautiful actress who’s temping, and one a girl with a failed marriage and a baby to look after. There are enough martinis and steaks and cigarettes and seam stockings in this book for fifteen series of Mad Men, but it’s much more than that. It was a groundbreaking book in its day because of the way it looked at taboo subjects - sex before marriage, affairs with married men, and women having - SHOCK - careers - but it’s strangely touching and relevant. We have all been green and inexperienced and THE BEST OF EVERYTHING is about that period in your twenties where you’re finding your way in the big city. Most of all, it’s totally unputdownable. I wish I could read it for the first time all over again. LOVED it.

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