by Lynn Steward
Irwin was making great progress finishing the line, and soon the boutique would be open for business. Even Helen had abandoned her curmudgeonly personality, just as Bob had predicted.
It didn’t take Dana long to instruct Andrew’s display team on the placement of fixtures and display cases—she’d been documenting every detail for months. As Dana had learned the previous year with the teen cosmetic counter, and now with The British Shop, there was no easy path, no shortcut to achieving success. If you believed in yourself, however, you’d find a way to make it happen. What had been an artistic vision two months earlier had become a solid, three-dimensional reality. Nothing was impossible.
Dana went up to her office, a smile still on her face. She had a million things to do and she didn’t know where to start. And that, of course, was exactly how Dana liked it.
Although Lynn Steward’s debut novel, A Very Good Life Vol. 1 in the Dana McGarry series, takes place in 1970s New York City, the emotional story transcends any period. Dana McGarry is an “it” girl, living a privileged lifestyle of a well-heeled junior executive at B. Altman, a high end department store. With a storybook husband and a fairytale life, change comes swiftly and unexpectedly. Cracks begin to appear in the perfect facade. Challenged at work by unethical demands, and the growing awareness that her relationship with her distant husband is strained, Dana must deal with the unwanted changes in her life. Can she find her place in the new world where women can have a voice, or will she allow herself to be manipulated into doing things that go against her growing self-confidence?
A Very Good Life chronicles the perils and rewards of Dana’s journey, alongside some of the most legendary women of the twentieth century. From parties at Café des Artistes to the annual Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting ceremony, from meetings with business icons like Estée Lauder to cocktail receptions with celebrity guests like legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland. Steward’s intimate knowledge of the period creates the perfect backdrop for this relatable story about a woman’s quest for self-identity.
A Very Good Life ranked #1 on Amazon’s list of 100 Top Free eBooks in Literary and Fiction
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lynn Steward is a successful business woman who spent many years in New York City’s fashion industry in marketing and merchandising, including the development of the first women’s department at a famous men’s clothing store. Through extensive research, and an intimate knowledge of the period, Steward created the characters and stories for a series of five authentic and heartwarming novels about New York in the seventies. April Snow is the second volume in the Dana McGarry Series. A Very Good Life, Steward’s debut novel, was published in March 2014.
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