Summer at Tiffany

By: Marjorie Hart

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Do you remember the best summer of your life?

New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, Marty Garrett, arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they miraculously find jobs as pages at Tiffany & Co., becoming the first women to ever work on the sales floor—a diamond-filled day job replete with Tiffany blue shirtwaist dresses from Bonwit Teller's—and the envy of all their friends.

Hart takes us back to the magical time when she and Marty rubbed elbows with the rich and famous; pinched pennies to eat at the Automat; experienced nightlife at La Martinique; and danced away their weekends with dashing midshipmen. Between being dazzled by Judy Garland's honeymoon visit to Tiffany, celebrating VJ Day in Times Square, and mingling with Café society, she fell in love, learned unforgettable lessons, made important decisions that would change her future, and created the remarkable memories she now shares with all of us.

A Dream Come True!

The sweetest true story there ever was! A young girl's recount of her war-time summer in Manhattan where she gets a dream job (historically only awarded to men) with her best friend during a summer away from school. Brought back memories of high school working with my best friend at a local retail shop. :) Sweet, funny, interesting - very easy and light read but a perfectly pleasant story.

Loved Summer at Tiffany

Wonderful story!
Loved to read how women helped changed the New York job market!!! Vivid details I could really picture the clothes and jewelry worn by all the characters and the joy the end of the war brought!!

Summer at Tiffany

Enjoyed this book, well written and likable characters. Enjoyed that it was a true story.

a charming memoir, simply and ably told

this book is so charming! coeds in new york city in the 40's, back when young women could travel to the city for the summer in relative safety, date sailors whom they met at dances at Columbia, and only the well mannered (and male) worked at Tiffany's. A thoroughly enjoyable read!

Perfect Listen!

This book was such a pleasure to listen to. The author’s way of sharing her experience during a summer to remember invoked reverence and nostalgia, as well as inspired a more fun-loving outlook in this listener. To aspire to become a person of value will now be something I use as a guidepost of myself as well as something I will try to pass down to my children.