Blue Horizon

by Mary Wolfe Thompson, Janice Holland (Illustrator)

After finishing art school, Janet Mackenzie landed a job at a Madison Avenue interior decoration shop. As she learns more about her job, weathering the smaller disasters like broken ceramics and misdeliveries, she learns the skills that lead her steadily into her chosen field. While working on her career, Janet is squeezing her small budget to help her brother Burt through medical school. Janet makes friends, like the young architect, John Wainright, whose partnership in the Thankfull House renovation leads to a mystery and a solution to a vexing problem.

221 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1940

About the author

Mary Wolfe Thompson was an author of children's books. She was born in 1886 in Connecticut, the daughter of a doctor. She grew up in Trenton, New Jersey, and attended the New York School Fine and Applied Arts and did graduate studies at Columbia University.
She was listed as a notable author by Marquis Who's Who. She died in North Bennington, Bennington County, Vermont, in 1970.

Reviews

[Oolookitty · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another good “career romance” from this author. Janet is an aspiring interior designer, and learns a lot about this profession, as well as how to handle people, as she makes her way. The writer is very good at exploring the various duties of Janet’s profession while incorporating it into story and not feeling didactic or expository. And the characters are a lot of fun. At first we think rich girl Natalie is going to be a villain but she turns out to be layered and complex like everybody else! And Janet learns that her first impressions about people are not always going to be accurate, and learns to be more open and less judgmental.

A fun read.