Outside there was a low portico and slim white pillars that made it look like a sorry excuse for a Southern mansion.
In it Katey describes an outing with her wealthy friend Wallace: "Wallace's hunt club was surprisingly run-down in appearance. To prove the point I've opened the book at a random page. Katey's story is inextricably entwined with its richly detailed setting and it's easy to forget that this book was written in the 21st century and not in the 1930s. It's a powerful figure, able to hoist its inhabitants to the heights of society or dump them on the bread line. New York becomes as real a character as Katey and Tinker, bursting with style and promise. That year is 1938, and one of the novel's great strengths is its recreation of the era.
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