Teddy
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3.6 • 9 Ratings
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- £11.99
Publisher Description
‘Darkly glamorous. Your summer read is sorted’ Sunday Times Style
‘Glamorous, exuberant and propulsive’ Daisy Buchanan
‘Mad Men meets White Lotus' Red
'Stylish and twisting' The Times
'A wild ride and a heck of a lot of fun' iNews
Teddy has earned a fresh start. But some secrets just won't stay hidden…
It is the summer of 1969 and Rome is awash with glamour and intrigue. Teddy Huntley Carlyle is fresh off a plane from Texas with a new husband in tow and a new life on the horizon. After some wayward years of bad men and bad decisions, she’s promised herself a fresh start. In Rome, Teddy will be good. She will wear the right clothes and the perfect lipstick and she will charm her husband’s colleagues at the Embassy.
And Teddy is good, until the Fourth of July, when her new life explodes with the fireworks above her head. She is caught on camera in the arms of the American ambassador just moments after spotting a man from the darkest corner of her past across the room. There it is: the evidence of her depravity on film. Trying to recover the photographs and keep her reputation intact, Teddy descends into the dark underbelly of the city… but is she in over her head?
What readers are saying about Teddy…
'Will absolutely be the hottest book of the summer'
'1960s glamour packed with suspense'
'Claustrophobic and glamorous'
'Gripping and thrilling'
Reviews
‘Darkly glamorous. Your summer read is sorted’ Sunday Times Style
'Stylish and twisting' The Times
‘A smart page turner with an irresistible heroine. Glamorous, exuberant and propulsive, this is a story that will stay with me for a long time’ Daisy Buchanan, author of Insatiable
'The most stylish and compulsive read of the year. Teddy is a voice and a character you will never forget. Made me long to wear Valentino and red lipstick just to do laundry!' Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things
'A glitteringly glamorous and gossipy trip to 1960s Rome with a chaotically charming protagonist and a transporting setting, all with a mystery at its heart. Dunlay’s gorgeously immersive novel will fill a Lessons In Chemistry shaped hole on your shelf (and heart)' Ellery Lloyd, author of The Club
'Claustrophobic and glamourous. A heady, steamy novel about desire for people, possessions and ultimately the self' Araminta Hall, author of Perfect Strangers
'A wild ride and a heck of a lot of fun' iNews
'A buzzy debut with Mad Men meets White Lotus vibes that you won’t want to put down' Red
'An escapist romp' Grazia
'Mad Men meets White Lotus, this novel has it all: atmosphere, glamour, danger, a heroine at the center of a web she doesn’t understand. Teddy is the ungovernable passion at the center of every woman' Jenna Blum, author of The Lost Family
Customer Reviews
*Facing Fears*
**3.5 Stars**
This was quite the story, told through the eyes of the main character, Teddy. A series of flashbacks reveal her past, though I found some parts a bit long-winded, waiting to see where the story was headed.
We meet Teddy, a well-to-do Texan from a snobbish family. Her life revolved around looking the part and dressing well, thanks to her mother, who hardly allowed her to breathe.
Once she hit her 30s, her mother only wanted her to get married. It was the 1960s, and at 34, her mother threw her a quiet wedding, as it was frowned upon to be so old as a bride in her opinion.
David, a diplomat with a long-term assignment in Rome, became Teddy’s chance for a fresh start. It was the clean break she desperately needed after making a series of bad choices with some unquestionable men. This marked the end of the many years she had tried to behave just so and all buttoned up.
Once in Rome, Teddy was seduced by the history, glamour, and her knowledge of fashion. She knew how to look good, but not how to do much for herself or be a wife, as everything had been done for her growing up.
Things took a turn when her past started to catch up with her, and she still made poor and naive choices. In some ways, I felt sorry for her, but she persevered, getting into scrape after scrape. With David’s job, she found herself right in the path of her secrets and lies, and all was not as it seemed.
Teddy by Emily Dunlay
The book is elusive, mysterious, and captivating, just like its main character. The descriptions in the book are absolutely fabulous, and I can’t help but gasp at how talented Emily Dunlay really is. There are countless times where many authors have hyped up their debut novel, and everyone is really excited about it, but then it completely fails. This is definitely not one of them. And since I bought the audiobook, I want to take a moment to applaud the narrator, Carlotta Brentan. Her voice is full of emotion almost every time she speaks, and since this novel is set in the 1960s, she sounds exactly like she could be from that point in time. Her beautiful voice is the perfect mix of sultry, dramatic, sassy, and so much more. This audiobook is a charming listen, and dare I say, an absolute masterpiece and a pleasure to be among my purchases. 5 stars.