The Group: A New York Times Best Seller

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THE GROUP follows eight graduates from exclusive Vassar College as they find love and heartbreak, forge careers, gossip and party in 1930s Manhattan.

THE GROUP can be seen as the original SEX AND THE CITY. It is the first novel to frankly portray women's real lives, exploring subjects such as sex, contraception, motherhood and marriage.

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A brilliant novel: honest, engaging and sharp as a tack - Sarah Waters

One of my favourite books ever - India Knight

Lively, vivid and exceedingly entertaining - Sunday Times

Juicy, shocking, witty, and almost continually brilliant - Cosmopolitan

Her greatest novel...marvellous...a prophetic book which set the scene...for the novels of protest and liberation in the next decade - Independent

Scalpel-keen prose, honed on ruthless wit and insight - Observer

She is a sparkler, a very funny, very savage moralist, and a brilliant mimic - SPECTATOR

Author Bio

Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was a well-known novelist, critic, journalist and memoirist. Her most famous novel is THE GROUP.