White Gloves & Rob Roys

Its 1968. While writing a lifestyle story on Schraffts restaurants in Manhattan Ashley a young reporter meets Vi Wilding and three other much older women who have dined alone at Schraffts for decades. Slowly the women share their shocking secret as they spin tales of love and betrayal culminating in the murder of a fifth woman in 1938. This triggers the women to band together and exact their revenge after each had been conned out of a fortune. In the course of her interviews Ashley struggles to grow from a lifestyle reporter to a feature reporter. Shifting from 1968 to the turn of the century and into the 30s this novel is a compelling revelation of women who struggled to find their place in a world where respect and a chance for employment and independence were not freely offered to them.