Monday, May 13, 2013

Flapper at the party: Delilah


Fellow blogger, Mary, takes a sip from her giggle water and admires Delilah's Charleston with that Bell bottom. They are just the Cat's Meow.

MEET Delilah here...


A Spear of Summer Grass
by Deanna Raybourn

Paris, 1923
The daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah Drummond is already notorious, even among Paris society. But her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married mother blanch. Delilah is exiled to Kenya and her favorite stepfather's savanna manor house until gossip subsides.

Fairlight is the crumbling, sun-bleached skeleton of a faded African dream, a world where dissolute expats are bolstered by gin and jazz records, cigarettes and safaris. As mistress of this wasted estate, Delilah falls into the decadent pleasures of society.

Against the frivolity of her peers, Ryder White stands in sharp contrast. As foreign to Delilah as Africa, Ryder becomes her guide to the complex beauty of this unknown world. Giraffes, buffalo, lions and elephants roam the shores of Lake Wanyama amid swirls of red dust. Here, life is lush and teeming—yet fleeting and often cheap.

Amidst the wonders—and dangers—of Africa, Delilah awakes to a land out of all proportion: extremes of heat, darkness, beauty and joy that cut to her very heart.

Only when this sacred place is profaned by bloodshed does Delilah discover what is truly worth fighting for—and what she can no longer live without.


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Bit o'sip sip gossip...

Enter to win this:

Offer ends May 15:
Beth Fish Reads
The Brazen Bookworm

Offer ends May 15:
Booking Mama

Offer ends May 28:
Confessions of a Book Addict

Offer ends May 31:
She Knows


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WIN a copy of this book!

Open to all.

Offer ends: May 31, 2013 --> extended to June 9

TO DO: (3 parts)

VISIT Deanna's site. Leave Deanna a comment.

RETURN here and tell me something of interest there.

AND, leave your email (if I don't already have it)

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* on my want list

* image source: for Flapper guest Mary

* Updated: 5.17.13 with giveaway offer from publisher

_.oO0- Flappers at Floyd's schedule -0Oo._



 
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