I can tell you with some confidence that you will not have read a book like this before. It's a short book, best read in one sitting, that is quite original and very well done. You are probably thinking to yourself that you have read so many books that there is nothing new under the sun, but I am here to tell you that there is. Here is the story of Caroline Margaret Brookes Whitaker (known as Kitty) through her engagement to William Wallingford III (known as Bucky). They marry in 1926 and become a coveted pair at Fifth Avenue dinner parties and cocktail gatherings, and their lives appear to be perfect although they are concealing private grief. So nothing terribly out of the ordinary so far, but I haven't told you about the format of the book yet. Each page carries no more than a paragraph of writing set out as though it was a catalogue entry for a high class art gallery. Every entry carries a heading to give you a time and location and then the paragraph o...