Title: How did this woman win any fiction prizes?
Review: OK, I confess this is the first book by Ellen Gilchrest I've read. But the whole experience was excruciating. How could she take such a rich topic and destroy it with hackneyed dialog, completely flat characters and none of the texture that could be afforded by settings like Nashville, New York City and Paris? I'm not rushing out to buy any of her other books.
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