Scruples
Judith Krantz, 1978
A Beverly Hills luxury empire, a film producer's Oscar campaign, and a woman with two hundred million dollars and no patience for the help.
Judith Krantz
Judith Krantz writes about money and appetite with a straight face: the stores, the deals, the clothes, the sex, and the people who want all of it and say so. Start with Scruples, where a Beverly Hills shop becomes an empire and the Oscar campaign runs alongside the shopping; Princess Daisy is the one to pick next if you want the same world seen through a woman with a famous father, a Brooklyn Dodgers jacket and a head for business.
Feels like ambition, passion and nostalgia.
Start with Scruples.
Judith Krantz was fifty when Scruples was published, her first novel, after decades of writing for women's magazines.
No photograph has ever caught the version of you that walks into a room.
Since her twenty-first birthday Billy had been photographed many hundreds of times, but newspaper pictures had never quite caught her challenging reality. Her long, dark hair, the deep brown of the best mink, so brown that it looked like black licked by moonlight, was thrust behind her ears, in which she always wore her signature jewels, the great eleven-karat diamonds known as the Kimberley Twins, which had been her wedding present from her first husband, Ellis Ikehorn. Books by Judith Krantz
Princess Daisy
Judith Krantz, 1980
A Brooklyn Dodgers jacket, a princess’s blood, and a talent for turning charm into a deal—Daisy Valensky takes on the glamour business.
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