M.J. Rose’s new book Tiffany Blues, in stores Tuesday, August 7, takes place in 1924 during the time of underground bars, Jazz and set in the world of art and the Tiffany family of Tiffany & Co.
Twenty-four year old Jenny Bell is a a gifted artist living in New York City. Struggling to make ends meet while going to school for painting. She becomes close fiends with Minx Deering, a fellow artist how comes from a family of money. She soon moves in with her but keeps her jobs and is determined to make her own way. When she meets a reporter Ben on the street and he sees her drawings, he gets her a job that pays really good as a sketch artist during court trials. He also becomes a love interest for her. The two girls are saving up their money to move to Paris.
When Minx secretly enters Jenny to get a summer invited to Louis Comfort Tiffany’s summer artist’s colony, Jenny is mad. But they have both been accepted and join with other students to fine craft their art. There she meets Oliver, the grandson of Mr. Tiffany and they fall in love.
But Jenny has been keeping secrets she doesn’t want to come out. Things happened that could throw her world into pieces if they come out and has been protecting her past. Things happen over the summer with Minx, Oliver and herself that could thrown everything that she has worked to protect out the window and ruin her life forever.
A story of love, family, moving on from the past and the glamorous world of Tiffany Glass plus the times of 1924, make for an enjoyable story that has some shocking twists and turns that go right up to the finale of the book. It goes to show no matter how hard someone goes to bury their past in never really stays buried.
