Teddy
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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
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Dunlay impresses with her multilayered character-driven debut about a Texas woman who lands in hot water after she marries a State Department employee at the height of the Cold War. The narrative begins in 1969 Rome, where Teddy Huntley Carlyle Shepard is about to be questioned by investigators for reasons unknown to the reader. From there, Teddy's story unfurls in flashbacks, starting with her first date with future husband David Shepard earlier in the year, whose unspecified job involves "encouraging economic cooperation" between the U.S. and Europe. David is now in Milan, and the night before the interrogation, Teddy attended a Fourth of July party at the American ambassador's residence. The dress she wore is stained with blood, and she worries that news of what happened there—the details of which come out much later—will cause an international scandal ("My name will be in everyone's mouths, crunched and swallowed between the crushed ice and maraschino cherries of their juleps and Manhattans"). Teddy hints at secrets she's kept from David, including her romance with a Russian named Yevgeny Larin, whom she last saw in 1963, and considers herself a "wolf in sheep's clothing." Early on, Teddy is portrayed as a superficial person, but her hidden depths come to light in the novel's satisfying climax. This is a winner.
