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â??Darkly glamorous. Your summer read is sortedâ??Sunday Times Style â??Glamorous, exuberant and propulsiveâ?? Daisy Buchanan, author of Insatiable â??A buzzy debut with Mad Men meets White Lotus vibes that you wonâ??t want to put down'Red Magazine

'Darkly glamorous. Your summer read is sorted'Sunday Times Style'Glamorous, exuberant and propulsive' Daisy Buchanan, author of Insatiable'A buzzy debut with Mad Men meets White Lotus vibes that you won't want to put down'Red Magazine'Stylish and twisting' The Times

‘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'?????

Good Morning America Buzz Pick"Effervescent and cool, Teddy is the perfect read if your trip to Capri gets canceled and your La Dolce Vita itch needs scratching."--Washington PostLessons in Chemistry meets Mad Men in this wildly entertaining debut novel set in glamorous Rome, which follows the free-spirited wife of an American diplomat as she desperately tries to contain a scandal of her own making.It is the summer of 1969 and Rome is awash with glamour and intrigue: the stars of Cinecitt are drinking and dancing along the paparazzo-lined Via Veneto, where royalty, American expats, and the occasional Russian spy rub shoulders.Teddy Huntley Carlyle has just arrived in Italy from Dallas, Texas, eager for a fresh start with her new husband, a diplomat assigned to the American embassy. After years of "spoiling like old milk," in the words of her controlling, politically-minded uncle, Teddy vows to turn over a new leaf. She will be the soul of discretion; she will be conservative, proper, and polite. She will be her most beautiful, luminous self, wearing the right clothes and the perfect lipstick, and she will be good. She will charm her husband's colleagues at the embassy, and no one will have a word to say against her.Teddy keeps her promise, more or less--until the Fourth of July, when her new life explodes as spectacularly as the colorful fireworks lighting the Roman sky over the embassy grounds. Now, Teddy is in the middle of a mess that even her powerful connections and impeccable manners can't contain . . .