Champagne at Seven! (Bitches of Fifth Avenue)
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley February 15, 2023
Author Toni Glickman
Distributor: Speaking Volumes
ISBN: 978-1645407270
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
Release Date: July 2022
Website: https://speakingvolumes.us/#nogo
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Champagne at Seven is a snappy, well written, serious tilt at the often unseen, but generally understood side of wealth that is all too real, all too dangerous and all too easy to shatter into a million pieces, by simply failing to follow the invisible rules that govern the ‘Wives’ of powerful men.
Olivia Wyatt loves fashion, the colours, texture, the art of creating a glamourous look mixing new with vintage. She does not like her life as the wife of Edwin Wyatt, CEO of a very prestigious Advertising Company. She is considered as the ‘most interesting and recognised hostess’ in Washington DC.
She used to live for the life she now hates; the fake sweetness, the must dos of so called high society. She is rapidly falling out of love, not just with Edwin, but with her glamourous lifestyle. She understands that somehow she has an innate ability to create wonderful dinner parties, dress in stunning style without too much effort and swim through societies vicious gossip, which makes her dinner parties high on the list of places to see and be seen.
Edwin, yet again, charms her into staging another last minute dinner party that evening for some top line guests; men she has never heard of and could not care less about, but as it is what she does best, she pulls out all stops to make another memorable evening happen.
This one becomes more memorable than most, turning Olivia’s life upside down with cruel reality as she discovers she has to create a new life for herself and daughter Gwynnie.
As fashion is something she loves and understands, she sets out to begin again, finding the road somewhat challenging, until she is offered a position at her favourite store Harper James, which as it turns out is not all she was lead to believe.
Toni Glickman survived for many years in the cut throat world of high fashion, facing the depression, fear, backstabbing and the relentless pressure to sell, sell, sell. She brings this to the new series Bitches of Fifth Avenue Book one – Champagne at Seven with flair and passion, which sets the background for more from Olivia, as she begins again in world that could be just as cut throat as the one she has left behind.