Thank you to Netgalley for an advanced copy. I read Z about Zelda Fitzgerald before, so I’m familiar with Fowler’s work. This novel is about Alva Vanderbilt. I was very excited to read about this suffragette and last of the Gilded Age, but the novel was just “okay.” There’s nothing that set the story apart or made it exceptional. I’d be interested to learn more about Alice Vanderbilt and Consuelo Vanderbilt, though.

This is an enthralling story of an exceptional woman and her times. It brings Alva Vanderbilt to life and enables us to live vicariously in a time and a manner that is unimaginable to most of us. I am very glad I got a chance to know this woman.