The Whispering Women

Born into a once-wealthy Manhattan family, Louisa Delafield survives by doing the one thing she's suited for in the early twentieth century - writing a society column. After the death of a police matron in a bombed brownstone, Louisa is driven to write stories of a more sordid nature. "Muckraking" goes against her upbringing, but once her blinders are off, she can't continue to protect the privileged.

Ellen Malloy came to America to escape the priests who told her she would go to hell for l...