The Engagements

The Engagements

A diamond is forever. But forever isn't for everyone…

1947: Mary Frances Gerety, a young copywriter in an eminent advertising agency, has to convince the world of two things - that marriage means a diamond ring on every woman's finger, and that she is as good at her job as any man. And then, in one moment of brilliant inspiration, Mary Frances writes down four words which will achieve both her aims…

Moving from a Harvard swim-meet in 1927 to the three-martini lunches of 1940s advertising, from the back streets of 1980s Boston to an exquisite Parisian music shop in 2003, The Engagements is a novel about love, marriage, commitment and betrayal; it is as sharp, as fiery and as beautiful as the stone we have taken to represent our dreams.

J.Courtney Sullivan is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Commencement and Maine. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Chicago Tribune, New York magazine, Elle, Glamour, Allure and the New York Observer, among others. She is a contributor to the essay anthology The Secret Currency of Love and co-editor of Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.


The Engagements
Hachette Australia
Author: J.Courtney Sullivan
ISBN: 9781844089352
RRP: $29.99