The Irish Flapper by Catherine Stack

The Irish Flapper, is a novel set in Manhattan during the exciting Roaring Twenties about a young Irish woman’s journey to America to fulfill her contrasting ambitions of wealth and artistic expression. Once in America she awakens to the stark difference between her dreams and the disillusioning reality of an immigrant’s life. It is her new friends, brazen cousin and her newfound love that make life in the big city an unforgettable adventure. In America, it is her flamboyant cousin Isabelle, a glamourous actress and girlfriend of a notorious gangster who introduces Annie to the tantalizing yet deceptive world of fame and fortune. Annie falls deeply in love with Jack, a successful stockbroker haunted by the ghost of his past which threatens their future. As the great depression takes hold of New York City, it is the knot that ties family and friends together that helps her through great adversity and devastating loss.