![]() ![]() I don’t know, to be honest I stopped paying attention to the geography, the brands, the schools, the names of artists and socialites mentioned as pedigrees. Back in New York, it’s all Hamptons and old apartment buildings on the Upper East Side or wherever it is that these people dwell. The wedding is a week-long carnival, involving a tour of the most exclusive properties of Capri and a to-the-letter recreation of a setting in The Leopard for the ceremony. ![]() Lucie belongs to the former, which in this world apparently makes her a pitiable pauper. Superficially, there are two classes of people in this novel: the ultra-rich, and the unfathomably wealthy. Shenanigans ensue, initiated when Charlotte takes issue with the lack of ocean views in their hotel room, and the garish Rosemary Zao insists they swap with her and her broody and absolutely chiseled son George, a Hong Kong-via-Sydney architecture student with an Australian accent. ![]() ![]() Lucie Tang Churchill, 19-year-old New York biology student, flies in with her older cousin Charlotte who is her chaperon. To Capri, no less, for the wedding of Taiwanese heiress Isabel Chiu to Italian heir Adolfo Michelangelo De Vecchi. Forster’s A Room With A View begins with an invitation. ![]()
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