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It’s a slow starter for me. It’s written with such breathless self-seriousness that I keep waiting for someone to say, “I think I miss the swans the most.”

Intense as African sun, nearly inscrutable in the style of LeCarré, and unputdownable

I almost threw this book against the wall—“a real nanny…not a Mexican housekeeper, but someone professional and organized and kind.” (Pg. 88)

And claiming that the Rodney King incident proved that New York was better than LA, that it proved something about race relations in LA. This is on pg. 187. The casual racism is pg. 188.

If I hadn’t read so much Elin Hilderbrand I would have stopped forever.