A Front Page Affair

Name: A Front Page Affair
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Radha Vatsal
ISBN: 9781541487949

Author: Radha Vatsal

Series: Kitty Weeks Mystery #1

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Unabridged: 7 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/20/2018

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

New York City, 1915

The Lusitania has just been sunk, and headlines about a shooting at J. P. Morgan's mansion and the Great War are splashed across the front page of every newspaper. Capability "Kitty" Weeks would love nothing more than to report on the news of the day, but she's stuck writing about fashion and society gossip over on the Ladies' Page—until a man is murdered at a high society picnic on her beat.

Determined to prove her worth as a journalist, Kitty finds herself plunged into the midst of a wartime conspiracy that threatens to derail the United States's attempt to remain neutral—and to disrupt the privileged life she has always known.

About Radha Vatsal

Radha Vatsal grew up in Mumbai, India, and came to the United States to attend boarding school when she was sixteen. She has stayed here ever since. Her fascination with the 1910s began when she studied women filmmakers and action-film heroines of silent cinema at Duke University, where she earned her PhD from the English Department. A Front Page Affair is her first novel. Radha lives with her husband and two daughters in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kris (My Novelesque Life) on May 04, 2019

For the past few days I have been trying to find time to read Radha Vatsal's debut novel, A Front Page Affair. Things have come up that have been poaching on my reading time. I got home from work at 9:15pm...took my shower and then buckled down to read. I finished 10 minutes to midnight so technical......more

Goodreads review by Lois on May 08, 2018

This was medium OK. Light hearted and semi interesting. It was a little convoluted and moved a bit slowly. Still, not bad for a first novel. This was Downton Abbey-ish.......more

Goodreads review by Crystal on January 24, 2016

I truly enjoyed this story line. Capability Weeks, or Kitty, as she is more informally known, is a modern American girl that works for the New York Sentinel. In 1915 New York, girls are not allowed to be reporters, so when Kitty is asked by her boss to attend a society garden party to write a story......more

Goodreads review by Kristina on May 17, 2016

It is 1915 in New York. Capability “Kitty” Weeks is nineteen years old and a reporter for the Ladies Page of the New York Sentinel (she wants to report real stories but women are not allowed in the newsroom). Miss Helena Busby is her boss and showing her the ropes (she is also her assistant). Kitty......more