Emotional boundaries are blurred in fine debut
The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell. Penguin/Fig Tree, €16.35. Reviewed by Susan Morrell.
The Other Typist
**By Suzanne Rindell**
**Penguin/Fig Tree, €16.35**
**Reviewed by Susan Morrell**
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No-nonsense typist Rose Baker works in a gritty Lower East Side police station in 1920s New York. A prudish bachelorette who lives in a boarding house, she leads a quiet existence amid the excesses of her generation, those gin-swilling, charleston-dancing libertines with scandalous haircuts, as she sees them.
In the midst of these swinging times, Rose holds tight to ...