A New York Times Bestseller
A Cosmopolitan Best Nonfiction Book of 2024
-Compulsively readable: I found myself dashing through it like a novel- The Wall Street Journal
-Riveting- Financial Times
The New York Times bestselling story of the golden age of luxury department stores, and the trailblazing women who ran them.
The twentieth century department store: a wonderland of consumption where every wish could be met under one roof. Dropping off the baby at nursery; an afternoon tea; a stroll through the latest fashions. A wedding (or funeral) could be planned. A Bengal Tiger cub could be purchased.
Inside these towering price-tag palaces, anything was possible. They were beacons of modernity, and within this atmosphere of glamour and luxury, women dominated. Men may have owned the buildings, but inside women ruled.<
