She never ran into danger in her walking. She felt the street was the source of the latest things humans have invented and she looked for these all the time. She walked every day, usually about five miles, on the way to work, at lunch time and in the evening to parties. What distinguished her from other successful New Yorkers was her passion for the city, the actual streets. She also fell deeply in love with a manager of a department at Macy’s, married and had one son whom she adored always. Lilian lived in six apartments altogether. Her first book Oh, Do not ask for Promises was a smash hit and sold out, as did all her others up to the last Nobody’s Darling. She also wrote poems, funny and charming. She was original and witty and very soon earning a top salary.
It didn’t take very long before Lilian landed a job at R.H. Her family helped her initially, and insisted she live in the Christian Women’s Hotel in Midtown, until she could afford her own apartment.
She found she could write, and was determined to get to New York and earn her own living that way. Lilian was born in 1926 to a comfortable family living in Washington. The woman was called Margaret Fishback, and the author of this book bases Lillian Boxfish on her life, but apart from that writes an entirely new novel. This is a passionate love letter to the city of New York inspired by the life of an American woman who lived there in the 30’s and became the highest-paid female advertising copywriter in the world
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