![]() ![]() Peg’s estranged husband, Billy, now a Hollywood screenwriter, returns to write a new play for her. The Lily’s fortunes change when Peg’s old friend, acclaimed English stage actress Edna Parker Watson, arrives in New York with her dashing younger husband, refugees from the bombing in London. Vivian immediately falls in love with Peg’s world and with the glamorous, racy life of the showgirls, who adopt her for her seamstress skills and task themselves with helping her lose her virginity, in one of the novel’s best comic set pieces. The Lily puts on modest musical revue shows with dancing girls for the local working-class audience and is always one step away from bankruptcy. ![]() Her narrator, Vivian Morris, arrives in New York City in the summer of 1940, a well-bred virgin dismissed from her prestigious women’s college and sent by her Wasp-y east coast family to live with bohemian Aunt Peg, who owns a run-down old theatre. ![]()
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