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LARA THOMPSON’S One Night, New York (Virago, £14.99) begins on a winter night in 1932. Two women wait at the top of the Empire State Building to see whether their plan to take an awful revenge on a powerful man, guilty of unforgivable crimes against them, will work.
And they’re waiting, too, to see whether either of them will be able to bring themselves to carry it out.
From the Dust Bowl of the Great Depression to a New York changing forever as the tenement-dwellers are forced to make way for the skyscrapers, this is an elegantly written debut.
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