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**A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER**
***A BOOK CLUB PICK FROM THE QUEEN CONSORT'S READING ROOM***
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‘Stunning’ - Lisa Taddeo, author of THREE WOMEN

‘Warm and wise' - Stephanie Merritt, Observer

‘Glamorous, sexy, compelling’ - Dolly Alderton, Sunday Times

‘I fell in love with Vivian from page one’ - Daisy Buchanan

‘An education in love, and an iridescent delight’ - Rowan Pelling, Spectator
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New York, 1940. Young, glamorous and inseparable, Vivian and Celia are chasing trouble from one end of the city to the other. But there is risk in all this play – that’s what makes it so fun, and so dangerous. Sometimes, the world may feel like it’s ending, but for Vivian and Celia, life is just beginning.

City of Girls is about daring to break conventions and follow your desires: a celebration of glamour, resilience, growing up, and the joys of female friendship – and about the freedom that comes from finding a place you truly belong.
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'There is so much to love in City of Girls' - Independent
'Wherever Liz Gilbert goes, we’ll follow' - Oprah magazine, Best book releases
'Sensational' - Cosmopolitan
'As bubbly as a champagne cocktail but with a real kick in the tail' - Sunday Express
'Explores female desire in a radically refreshing way' - independent.co.uk
'Brilliant on female friendship, desire and the influence a good mentor can bring to enrich a young woman's life' - Grazia Summer Reads

Details

ISBN13: 9781805333197
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 640
Edition:
Publication Date: 04 Mar 2025
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x12.9(L)
Weight (gm): 90

Author Biography

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1888. He was educated at Harvard, at the Sorbonne in Paris, and at Merton College, Oxford. His early poetry was profoundly influenced by the French symbolists, especially Baudelaire and Laforgue. In his academic studies he specialised in philosophy and logic. His doctoral thesis was on F. H. Bradley. He settled in England in 1915, the year in which he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood and also met his contemporary Ezra Pound for the first time. After teaching for a year or so he joined Lloyds Bank in the City of London in 1917, the year in which he published his first volume, Prufrock and Other Observations. In 1919 Poems was hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. His first collection of essays, The Sacred Wood, appeared in 1920. His most famous work, The Waste Land, was published in 1922, the same year as James Joyce's Ulysses.

Reviews

'This profoundly surreal book presents an inner life like no other. Solenoid is the bewildering, unclassifiable, barely comprehensible record of a dreamer and a visionary, genius and nutcase, loner and loser, philosopher and pariah - all rolled into one. . . Mircea Cartarescu is no longer writing novels. He is officiating a cult' - TLS

'An engrossing study of a cerebral antihero, who longs to escape his earthly existence. . . an instant classic' - New York Times

'A bravura performance: extravagantly brilliant ideas pinwheeling out from the dark center of a scrupulously imagined and death-driven self' - The Nation

'A masterwork of Kafkaesque strangeness, brilliantly conceived and written' - Kirkus (starred review)

'The great fun of this teeming hodge-podge is the way that Mr. Cartarescu tweaks the material of daily life, transmuting the banal into the fantastical' - Wall Street Journal