Fiona Davis’ The Dollhouse is both a mystery and a female-led coming-of-age summer read. The eponymous dollhouse is the famed Barbizon Hotel for Women, a place where young unmarried women in the early parts of the 20th century stayed while making their way in New York City. Whether they were models or attending secretarial schools for girls, for the most part the dollhouse was a temporary stop on the way to an advantageous marriage; Darby McLaughlin, however, was not interested in such a fate. In […]
