The Last Blossom on the Plum Tree

244 pp. "The year is 1928. The stock market is booming. Hoover is in the White House, Josephine Baker is in the Cotton Club. And in a fast-paced scenario that raced from luncheon at the Ritz to champagne at the Savoy, from Manhattan's luxurious town houses to Portofino's sunny shores, Irma Shrewsbury and Emily Codway - each in her own way - encounter life's 'last plum blossom.'