New York City, 2016: Rose has quit her job as a newscaster and investigative journalist – not entirely voluntarily – and now works for an on-line outfit with the self-mockingly clumsy name of Wordmerge.
Worth persevering with past the first few chapters. I liked it a lot more than I thought I was going to in the early pages, so much that it was one of those I just kept reading ''one more chapter'' and finished it in two sittings.
For a very different look at the 1950s we can recommend [[The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer]] or [[Salt Blue by Gillian Morgan]].