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Anonymous wrote:Not really what you're asking for, but I found a 1940s paperback novel called Government Girls at a book sale. I can't find it online or I'd link. A very vintage chick-lit read about the women who came to Washington during WWII to work for the feds and lived crowded into apartments, often experiencing life on their own for the first time. I felt like I was time traveling reading it.

DP here. Do you remember the author?

I'll look for it when I get home tonight.

I didn’t remember it quite correctly. It’s called Caroline Hicks, copyright 1951 and is a bit more lurid than I remembered.

https://www.biblio.com/caroline-hicks-by-karig-walter/work/2126572

The front cover says, “Man-hungry Washington, where there are three girls to every guy.” The back cover is even better, “GOVERNMENT GIRL ON THE MAKE!” In all caps.

A must-read for a DCUM book club!

I’m the PP who asked for the author. Thank you very much PP! Its a very DCUM book indeed.

Caroline Taylor writes lots of DC based books.

https://www.amazon.com/Caroline-Taylor/e/B001KHAWQY

PP here. Before kids I used to look for fun old DC books at book sales ( not online). Take a look at nonfiction Washington Lowdown from 1956.

https://www.amazon.com/Washington-Lowdown-Larston-D-Farrar/dp/045101300X

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not really what you're asking for, but I found a 1940s paperback novel called Government Girls at a book sale. I can't find it online or I'd link. A very vintage chick-lit read about the women who came to Washington during WWII to work for the feds and lived crowded into apartments, often experiencing life on their own for the first time. I felt like I was time traveling reading it.

DP here. Do you remember the author?

I'll look for it when I get home tonight.

I didn’t remember it quite correctly. It’s called Caroline Hicks, copyright 1951 and is a bit more lurid than I remembered.

https://www.biblio.com/caroline-hicks-by-karig-walter/work/2126572

The front cover says, “Man-hungry Washington, where there are three girls to every guy.” The back cover is even better, “GOVERNMENT GIRL ON THE MAKE!” In all caps.

A must-read for a DCUM book club!

Susan Richards Shreve’s books are good

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not really what you're asking for, but I found a 1940s paperback novel called Government Girls at a book sale. I can't find it online or I'd link. A very vintage chick-lit read about the women who came to Washington during WWII to work for the feds and lived crowded into apartments, often experiencing life on their own for the first time. I felt like I was time traveling reading it.

DP here. Do you remember the author?

I'll look for it when I get home tonight.

Thank you! ?

And Nicolle Wallace's books!

Anonymous wrote:A level above chick lit, Willie Morris's The Last of the Southern Girls; also many of Ward Just's books.

Also Thomas Mallon and Gore Vidal.

On the fluffier side, Dupont Circle by Paul Kafka-Gibbons, which I'm pretty sure I read but remember nothing about; The List by Karin Tanabe; and there was a book that came out in the last few years whose protagonist was told her husband had died in a train crash when he had actually been spirited away to Australia because of his involvement with some secret project. I think she ended up having an affair with the vice president, but the most telling local detail was her hacking away at bamboo in her mother's yard. Maybe someone else remembers it?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not really what you're asking for, but I found a 1940s paperback novel called Government Girls at a book sale. I can't find it online or I'd link. A very vintage chick-lit read about the women who came to Washington during WWII to work for the feds and lived crowded into apartments, often experiencing life on their own for the first time. I felt like I was time traveling reading it.

DP here. Do you remember the author?

I'll look for it when I get home tonight.

A level above chick lit, Willie Morris's The Last of the Southern Girls; also many of Ward Just's books.

Anonymous wrote:Not really what you're asking for, but I found a 1940s paperback novel called Government Girls at a book sale. I can't find it online or I'd link. A very vintage chick-lit read about the women who came to Washington during WWII to work for the feds and lived crowded into apartments, often experiencing life on their own for the first time. I felt like I was time traveling reading it.

DP here. Do you remember the author?

Not really what you're asking for, but I found a 1940s paperback novel called Government Girls at a book sale. I can't find it online or I'd link. A very vintage chick-lit read about the women who came to Washington during WWII to work for the feds and lived crowded into apartments, often experiencing life on their own for the first time. I felt like I was time traveling reading it.

I just read DC Trip by Sara Benincasa. I enjoyed it.

One of the chicks in When Life Gives You Lulu Lemons lives in Bethesda. Not sure if that counts enough.