![]() ![]() And soon her fascination with Odalie turns into an obsession from which she may never recover. When glamorous Odalie, a new girl, joins the typing pool, despite her best intentions Rose falls under Odalie’s spell.Īs the two women navigate between the sparkling underworld of speakeasies by night and their work at the station by day, Rose is drawn fully into Odalie’s high-stakes world. Rose Baker is an orphaned young woman working for her bread as a typist in a police precinct on the lower East Side. New York City, 1924: the height of Prohibition and the whole city swims in bathtub gin. Yet prudish Rose is stuck in the fading light of yesteryear, searching for the nurturing companionship that eluded her childhood. The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell is a thrilling tale of the intoxicating and dark side of friendship. ![]() ![]() All around her women bob their hair, they smoke, they go to speakeasies. Gone are the Victorian standards of what is acceptable. This is a new era for women, and New York is a confusing place for Rose. It is 1923, and while she may hear every detail about shootings, knifings, and murders, as soon as she leaves the interrogation room she is once again the weaker sex, best suited for filing and making coffee. A typist in a New York City Police Department precinct, Rose is like a high priestess. THE OTHER TYPIST by Suzanne Rindell RELEASE DATE: Take a dollop of Alfred Hitchcock, a dollop of Patricia Highsmith, throw in some Great Gatsby flourishes, and the result is Rindell’s debut, a pitch-black comedy about a police stenographer accused of murder in 1920s Manhattan. With a few strokes of the keys that sit before her, she can send a person away for life in prison. ![]()
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