One Sunday Morning: A Novel

By Amy Ephron

One Sunday morning four women at a bridge party in the elegant Gramercy Park Hotel see a beautiful young woman whom they all know leaving a nearby hotel with a man who is not her husband. The sight of twenty-year-old Lizzie Carswell with Billy Holmes is shocking and potentially ruinous. And though the ladies do not know the whole story -- and despite their mutual promise to keep what they've seen to themselves -- it is only a matter of time before one of them talks . . . with heartbreaking consequences for them all.

In One Sunday Morning, author Amy Ephron brilliantly navigates the social contradictions of Jazz Age New York society and brings a remarkable time and place to glorious life with a riveting drama of gossip, indiscretion, secrets, and betrayal.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Oct 26, 2010
• ISBN: 9780062032577

Amy Ephron

Amy Ephron is the bestselling author of the acclaimed novels One Sunday Morning and A Cup of Tea. Her magazine pieces and essays have appeared in Vogue; Saveur; House Beautiful; the National Lampoon; the Los Angeles Times; the Huffington Post; Defamer; her own online magazine, One for the Table; and various other print and online publications. She recently directed a short film, Chloe@3AM, which was featured at the American Cinematheque’s Focus on Female Directors Short Film Showcase in January 2011. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Alan Rader, and any of their five children who happen to drop in.

Reviews for One Sunday Morning

[bakersfieldbarbara · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Four women playing bridge see a friend leaving a hotel with a man who they know is not her husband. Gossip starts, even though they promise not to repeat what they saw. They do not know the whole story and evidently one of them tells what she thinks is happening to someone else,and the damage is done. This novel is a fast read and kept me thinking I knew the outcome, but the ending was a surprise and one I would never have suspected. I liked this book and recommend it highly.

[miyurose_1 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I'm not sure what the point of this was, other than to serve as a snapshot of 1920s New York society. It wasn't *bad*, there just wasn't a lot to it. It felt more like a short story than a novel, and the line in the synopsis, "with heartbreaking consequences for all" ends up looking a little overwrought. It didn't seem like anyone's heart was particularly broken at the end of the story. I'd say that this author just isn't my cup of tea.

[bobbieharv · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

A very slight book, in length as well as plot and characterization, about some young women in the 1920's. Would have made a much better short story.