Gatsby

The Paper Palace, this hot summer story genderflips and reimagines F Scott Fitzgerald''s classic novel Nic Carraway wants to be a writer. Newly graduated, she scores a cheap summer lease on a small boat house in Long Island, surrounded by the super-rich. Across the water, her charming cousin Danny and his type-A wife, Tomasina. Next door, an influencer who throws extravagant parties populated by the world''s A-list, operating under the handle @Gatsby. But no one can be careless like the rich. They are used to doing whatever they want, their secrets kept and their messes swept away. As the summer heats up, Nic finds herself tangled in a web of intrigue and romance, glamour and ambition. Can she - who so desperately wants to make it as a journalist - be the one to finally tell the truth?

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Jane Crowther

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Everyone knows Gatsby.New money. Murky past. Huge online following.'A clever, gender-flipped modern-day retelling of the classic' Grazia

'Stylish and beautifully written, with a case of the most decadently unhinged characters' JAMES GOODHAND

'Unputdownable' ROSIE MULLENDER

Nic Carraway doesn't belong amongst the super-rich, but when she scores a cheap summer lease in Long Island, it-girl Jay Gatsby becomes her neighbour.

Gatsby welcomes Nic to her opulent parties attended by the world's A-list. And in return, Nic helps Gatsby reconnect with an old flame: Nic's cousin, the ever-charming but now-married Danny Buchanan.

But no one can be careless like the rich. As the summer heats up, Nic finds herself tangled in a web of longing and ambition, betrayal and deceit. In a world where everyone is lying - about and to themselves - can Nic finally tell the truth?

**For readers of The Paper Palace,this hot summer story genderflips and reimagines F Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel.