Join Fiona Davis, author of The Dollhouse, will speak at Darien Library from 3 to 4 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 31 for an afternoon tea. To register for this event, please call 203-655-1234 or register online here.
Fiona Davis
Fiona Davis’ exquisite debut novel The Dollhouse pays tribute to New York City, past and present, and the women who’ve come to the Big Apple in search of a new beginning and a life to call their own.
The novel is set in and around the famed Barbizon Hotel for Women, an exclusive alternative residence for New York City’s young, single women that from 1927 to 1981 housed thousands of aspiring models, secretaries, editors, actresses, and writers — among them Lauren Bacall, Grace Kelly, Sylvia Plath, Liza Minelli, Candice Bergen, Joan Crawford, Joan Didion, and Betsey Johnson.
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Davis unfurls a gripping and intoxicating story of two women: one coming-of-age in 1950s New York City and one starting a new chapter in midlife in the present day, whose lives become intertwined around a decades-old scandal that rocked the residence in its heyday.
“Davis’s impeccably structured debut is equal parts mystery, tribute to midcentury New York City, and classic love story… Darby and Rose, in alternating chapters, weave intricate threads into twists and turns that ultimately bring them together; the result is good old-fashioned suspense.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
About the Author
Fiona Davis was born in Canada and raised in New Jersey, Utah, and Texas. She began her career in New York City as an actress, where she worked on Broadway, off-Broadway and in regional theater.
After 10 years, she changed careers, working as an editor and writer and specializing in health, fitness, nutrition, dance and theater.
She’s a graduate of the College of William and Mary and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and is based in in New York City.
She loves nothing better than hitting farmer’s markets on weekends in search of the perfect tomato, and traveling to foreign cities steeped in history, like London and Cartagena. The Dollhouse is her first novel.