Park Avenue Summer

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Mad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada as Renee Rosen draws readers into the glamorous New York City of 1965 and Cosmopolitan magazine, where a brazen new editor-in-chief-Helen Gurley Brown-shocks America and saves a dying publication by daring to talk to women about all things off-limits . . . "'Mad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada,' which might as well be saying 'put me in your cart immediately.'"-PopSugar It's 1965 and Cosmopolitanmagazine's brazen new editor in chief-Helen Gurley Brown-shocks America and saves a dying publication by daring to talk to women about all things off-limits... New York City is filled with opportunities for single girls like Alice Weiss, who leaves her small Midwestern town to chase her big-city dreams and unexpectedly lands a job working for the first female editor in chief ofCosmopolitanmagazine, Helen Gurley Brown. For Alice, who wants to be a photographer, it seems like the perfect foot in the door, but nothing could have prepared her for the world she enters. Editors and writers resign on the spot, refusing to work for the woman who wrote the scandalous bestsellerSex and the Single Girl, and confidential memos, article ideas, and cover designs keep finding their way into the wrong hands. When someone tries to pull Alice into a scheme to sabotage her boss, she is more determined than ever to help Helen succeed. While pressure mounts at the magazine, Alice struggles not to lose sight of her own dreams as she's swept up into a glamorous world of five-star dinners, lavish parties, and men who are certainly no good. Because if Helen Gurley Brown has taught her anything, it's that a woman can demand to have it all.

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Praise for Park Avenue Summer

A delightful and empowering read.PopSugar

Rene Rosen is my go-to for whip-smart heroines who love their work.Park Avenue Summeris a delightful summer cocktail of a read!Kate Quinn,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Alice Network

Filled with wit, heart, and verve, Rosen's novel dazzles and empowers. Simply wonderful!Chanel Cleeton, author of Next Year in Havana

Part historical fiction, part coming-of-age story, this is a novel for our keeper shelves to read and re-read when we begin to doubt that there is still time to become the best version of ourselves. Lovely prose, a unique storyline, and a heroine who will stay with you for a long time make this a book I highly recommend.Karen White, New York Times bestselling author

A breezy, delightful novel that celebrates female friendship and ambition. With Park Avenue Summer, Rene Rosen brings legendary magazine editrix Helen Gurley Brown back to life and captures a beloved bygone era with acuity, wisdom, and heart.Jamie Brenner, bestselling author ofThe Forever SummerandThe Husband Hour

Once again Rene Rosen works her magic, transporting us to the offices of Helen Gurley BrownsCosmopolitanin 1960s New York, and the result is a delight...Rosens command of historical detail is masterful; so, too, is her ability to create fictional characters, among them her heroine Alice, who are as fully realized and compelling as the beguiling Brown herself.Jennifer Robson, internationally bestselling author ofSomewhere in France

Rosen delivers a cast of complex and ambitious female protagonists to truly root for.The Devil Wears PradameetsMad Men, Park Avenue Summeris pure joy from cover to cover. I loved it.Hazel Gaynor,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Girl Who Came Home

Pussycats, Rene Rosen brings Helen Gurley Brown to life with all her cunning, vision, and shocking frugality. Park Avenue Summer is both a breezy Girl-Takes-Manhattan fairy tale, and a crackling account of how a brazen editoragainst her bosses' better judgmentinvented iconicCosmopolitanMagazine. This novel perfectly captures the zeitgeist of 1965.Sally Koslow, author ofAnother Side of Paradiseand bestselling author ofThe Late, Lamented Molly Marx

Renee Rosen combines meticulous research with a true affection for her characters to bring this heady time movingly to life.Elizabeth Letts, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion

This is a satisfying read about one young womans attempt to take advantage of the doors opening for women in 1960s America, and Alice is a likable complex heroine...Recommended for fans of Fiona Davis and Melanie Benjamin.Library Journal

Where the book sparkles brightest is in Rosens complete success in creating a soapy, small-town-girl-in-the-big-city story that includes sophisticated bad boys, designer clothes, and lots of smoking and day drinking. An ode to idealized 1960s New York, this champagne bubble of a novel takes theMad Menapproach to depicting single, twentysomething women.Booklist

Park Avenue Summer is a sweet, romantic story about making it in that big city, having your dreams come true, while finding friends, recapturing family, and finding forever love. Be still my heart. I loved it and found it hard to put down until the ending. It is a delicious delight that is simply wonderful! Thank you, Ms. Rosen.Fresh Fiction

Park Avenue Summer is a frothy and fun cocktail of fact and fiction, perfect for anyone who has ever been a Cosmo Girl.Augusta Chronicle

Park Avenue Summeris a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse into the world of the iconicCosmopolitanmagazine and its equally iconic editor, Helen Gurley BrownThis novel features strong heroines and intertwines a love story and a mystery, and most of all, heart. The storyline is fast-paced and utterly absorbing: a delight from start to finish.Historical Novel Reviews

Instantly absorbing, thoroughly researched and a fun, breezy read. Its like revisiting Mad Men, but from Peggy and Joans points of view.BookReporter

Author Bio

Renee Rosen is the author of Windy City Blues, White Collar Girl, What the Lady Wants, and Dollface, as well as the young adult novel Every Crooked Pot.