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Teddy

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'Darkly glamorous. Your summer read is sorted'Sunday Times Style 'Glamorous, exuberant and propulsive' Daisy Buchanan 'Mad Men meets White Lotus'Red 'Stylish and twisting' The Times 'A wild ride and a heck of a lot of fun' iNews Teddy has earned a fresh start. But some secrets just won't stay hidden... It is the summer of 1969 and Rome is awash with glamour and intrigue. Teddy Huntley Carlyle is fresh off a plane from Texas with a new husband in tow and a new life on the horizon. After some wayward years of bad men and bad decisions, she's promised herself a fresh start. In Rome, Teddy will be good. She will wear the right clothes and the perfect lipstick and she will charm her husband's colleagues at the Embassy. And Teddy is good, until the Fourth of July, when her new life explodes with the fireworks above her head. She is caught on camera in the arms of the American ambassador just moments after spotting a man from the darkest corner of her past across the room. There it is: the evidence of her depravity on film. Trying to recover the photographs and keep her reputation intact, Teddy descends into the dark underbelly of the city... but is she in over her head? What readers are saying about Teddy... 'Will absolutely be the hottest book of the summer'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ '1960s glamour packed with suspense'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Claustrophobic and glamorous'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Gripping and thrilling'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 20, 2024
      Dunlay impresses with her multilayered character-driven debut about a Texas woman who lands in hot water after she marries a State Department employee at the height of the Cold War. The narrative begins in 1969 Rome, where Teddy Huntley Carlyle Shepard is about to be questioned by investigators for reasons unknown to the reader. From there, Teddy’s story unfurls in flashbacks, starting with her first date with future husband David Shepard earlier in the year, whose unspecified job involves “encouraging economic cooperation” between the U.S. and Europe. David is now in Milan, and the night before the interrogation, Teddy attended a Fourth of July party at the American ambassador’s residence. The dress she wore is stained with blood, and she worries that news of what happened there—the details of which come out much later—will cause an international scandal (“My name will be in everyone’s mouths, crunched and swallowed between the crushed ice and maraschino cherries of their juleps and Manhattans”). Teddy hints at secrets she’s kept from David, including her romance with a Russian named Yevgeny Larin, whom she last saw in 1963, and considers herself a “wolf in sheep’s clothing.” Early on, Teddy is portrayed as a superficial person, but her hidden depths come to light in the novel’s satisfying climax. This is a winner. Agent: Katie Greenstreet, Paper Literary.

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