Set in Florida during the wild, fast-living days of prohibition and the land rush, this is the story of Maggie Murphy's baptism by fire as a newspaper reporter. Her spirited bid to write for the front pages is repeatedly thwarted by local prejudice about a woman's place, and Maggie finds herself angrily counting the roses on bridal bouquets for the Society News instead. With scandals brewing among the town's most respectable elite, Maggie soon makes inspired use of the ladies' page, however, and turns the town's silk purses out for the veritable sow's ears they are.
This is the story of a gallant young woman whose energy and determination overcome, among other things, her own hilarious awkwardness is written in a style, rare in these days of mass communication, that preserves a true regional integrity.
—from the dust jacket
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