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I was so excited to have the chance to write a story set in the 1920s! I’ve been fascinated by the era ever since I was a teenager—I blame The Great Gatsby and old silent Louise Brooks movies. The music, the fast cars, the cocktails, and above all the gorgeous clothes! It’s a fascinating time, filled with enormous change and upheaval, dashing men, and spirited, independent women. It’s the perfect setting for a romance.

Before I jumped into David and Lulu’s story, I watched silent movies and various versions of Gatsby over and over, and did a lot of reading. Here are a few great sources I came across:

Nathan Miller, New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America(2003)—my story is set in England, but this book was huge help in tracing trends and fads of the era

DJ Taylor, Bright Young People (2007)—an account of the high life in between-the-wars England

Humphrey Carpenter, The Brideshead Generation (1989)

Ronald L. Davis, ed., The Social and Cultural Life of the 1920s (1972)

Marion Meade, Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin (2004)

Lucy Moore, Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring ‘20s (2010)