1920s prohibition era is one of my favourite to read about and this one did not disappoint! Gripping romance, spicy storylines and wonderful descriptive writing.

There was much to enjoy here, but I found I couldn't connect with it. I'd read more from this author in the future though.

Really enjoyable read. Good characters and a Good story. Well worth a read. Think others will enjoy.

I wanted to love this book but i can't. It was too complicated! I couldn't figure out who some of the characters were or even what tied both stories together.

Beatriz Williams' latest book is a timeslip novel telling the dual stories of Gin, a typist-cum-flapper making her way in New York in the 1920s and Ella, an accountant who's just left her husband in the late 1990s. The women are tied together by a building - Ella lives there, and Gin went to the speakeasy in the basement. As Gin fights her way through a world of bootleggers and revenue agents, Ella is trying to make sense of a life after marriage.

I really enjoyed this book, but it felt a little unfinished to me. There are hanging threads on both story lines and a slight lack of resolution but it looks from some of the other reviews like this is the first in a series - or at least is going to be continued in another book and I'd welcome that - I really liked the 1920s characters and would like to spend more time with them.

Now I need to go back and read a Certain Age because I think I've missed something there too!

Ella is devastated when she finds out about her husbands infidelity and moves out their flash pad into a small apartment in a tenement block. She soon finds out that the other residents are far friendlier than the snooty people in her previous building - especially Hector who she meets in the basement laundry. He warns her not to come down her at night because of the jazz music playing from the next door speakeasy - but where is it?

Back in the 1920s Gin has fled from her country home to escape her stepfather and soon slips into the jazz and speakeasy scene in the prohibition era, but following a raid on the club she is questioned by Oliver and soon discovers that the real reason he wants to talk to her is to try and catch her stepfather who is the main supplier of booze in the area.

A great story alternating between the two timelines and I found myself enjoying both eras equally, which I rarely do on different timeline books, you could definitely imagine yourself in the jazz scene!