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A Time to Be Born

By: Dawn Powell
Narrated by: Hanna Gates
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Summary

Amanda Keeler is a bestselling novelist, famed for her martini-soaked parties. It's a glamorous life, paid for in full by marriage to a tedious, teeth-grinding newspaper tycoon.
When a meek friend from her provincial past arrives in Manhattan, Amanda plots to use her as cover for an affair-until she realises that they have both fallen for the same man.
Sophisticated, scandalous and acidly funny, this is a portrait of a woman determined to have everything, even if it costs the one thing she never meant to gamble: her heart.

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Critic Reviews

(Andrew O'Hagan, author of Caledonian Road)

'Steers us through the lives of women who come to New York from the hinterlands, for love, money, opportunity and a good time. . . Few books have so bitingly and energetically captured the hunger for status and success that animate the city and enrage so many'

(Hernan Diaz, author of Trust)

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