The Dollhouse (Hardcover)

from Lisa5127

This book has been recommended to me more times than I can count. I was on the waiting list at the library for months! I can see why. It is very well written with lots of people to love. The back and forth storytelling style works perfectly for this book. I didn't know what had happened until the...

from LynnMPK

This book was so interesting! Going into it I didn't know that it was based on a real hotel/boarding house, and I ended up googling a lot of things. The only Barbizon I was familiar with was the modeling school, which seems to have no relation to the building. The story was intriguing and heart...

from linda.marsheells

A very solid 4 stars....an interesting and enlightening book about the behind the scenes goings-on at the Barbizon hotel in NYC during the 1950's. The first novel for Fiona Davis?? hard to believe but true- it's THAT well-written. Once known as the 'Dollhouse' for the women-only residing inside, ...

from cburnett5

4.5 stars The Dollhouse provides a fascinating glimpse into life at the Barbizon Hotel for Women in the 1950s. The story opens in 2016 with Rose who lives in the Barbizon, which has been renovated and now contains high end condos. She learns that a few of the women who lived there until the hotel...

from clue

In The Doll House by Fiona Davis Darby McLaughlin becomes one of the residents of the famed Barbizon Hotel for Women in 1952. During that decade the Barbizon was the home of aspiring young women who had come to New York to pursue careers as models, writers and secretaries. Darby's plan was to liv...