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Fiona Davis, writer of The Dollhouse, returns with a persuasive novel about the skinny lines between love and reduction, success and wreck, love and madness, all hidden behind the wall space on the Dakota, New York City's most well-known residence. After having a failed apprenticeship, working her way up to brain housekeeper of the posh London hotel is more than Sara Smythe ever thought she'd label of herself. But when a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the architects of the grand New York apartment house The Dakota, leads to a job offer, her world is abruptly awash in probability - no mean feat for a servant in 1884. The possibility to move to America, in which a person can go above one's stop. The possibility to be the female manager on the Dakota, which pledges to be the best apartment house on earth. And the possibility to see more of Theo, who knows Sara like nobody else...which is living in The Dakota along with his better half and three young children. In 1985, Bailey Camden is desperate for new opportunities. Fresh out of rehab, the ex - party girl and interior designer is homeless, jobless, and penniless. Two years back, Bailey's grandfather was the ward of famous architect Theodore Camden. However the lack of a genetic interconnection means Bailey won't see a dime of the Camden family's substantial property. Instead, her "cousin" Melinda - Camden's natural great-granddaughter - will inherit almost everything. So when Melinda offers to let Bailey oversee the renovation of her luxurious Dakota apartment, Bailey jumps at the chance, despite her dislike of Melinda's eye-sight. The renovation will take away all the character and record of the apartment Theodore Camden himself resided in...and passed away in, after hurting multiple stab wounds by way of a madwoman named Sara Smythe, a ex - Dakota employee who had recently spent seven weeks in an crazy asylum on Blackwell's Island. One hundred years apart, Sara and Bailey are both lured by and have difficulty against the fantastic excess of their respective age ranges - for Sara, the opulence of a global ruled by the Astors and Vanderbilts; for Bailey, the free-flowing beverages and cocaine in the nightclubs of NEW YORK - and take refuge and solace in top of the West Side's gilded fortress. But a building with a history as abundant - and often tragic - as The Dakota's can't maintain its secrets permanently, and what Bailey discovers in its cellar could change everything she thought she realized about Theodore Camden - and the woman who wiped out him - on its brain. With abundant historical depth, nuanced people, and gorgeous prose, Fiona Davis once more delivers a compulsively listenable novel that peels again the tiers of not only a famed institution but the lives - and sits - of the conquering hearts within.
