gorczany.marilie_975Description
From afar Talitha's life seemed perfect. In her twenties, and already a famous model and actress, she moved from London to a palace in Marrakesh, with her husband Paul Getty, the famous oil heir. There she presided over a swirling ex-pat scene filled with music, art, free love and a counterculture taking root across the world.
When Claire arrives in London from her small town, she never expects to cross paths with a woman as magnetic as Talitha Getty. Yearning for the adventure and independence, she's swept off to Marrakesh, where the two become kindred spirits. But beneath Talitha's glamourous facade lurks a darkness few can understand. As their friendship blossoms and the two grow closer, the realities of Talitha's precarious existence set off a chain of dangerous events that could alter Claire's life forever.
Tremaine Mann @gorczany.marilie_975
June 17, 2022
5
I adored this book; it had a dreamlike, “beautiful and the dammed” quality about it and I inhaled it in one session, whilst hungrily Googling real estate in Marrakech and those iconic Litchfield photos of the Gettys. It’s part fantasy, part cautionary tale of addiction. I’ll think about this book for a long time, I think.