<p><strong>A <em>New York Times</em> Bestseller</strong></p><p><strong>A <em>Cosmopolitan</em> Best Nonfiction Book of 2024</strong></p><h3>¿Compulsively readable: I found myself dashing through it like a novel¿ <strong><em>The Wall Street Journal</em></strong></h3><h3>¿Riveting¿ <strong><em>Financial Times</em></strong></h3><h4><strong>The <em>New York Times</em> bestselling story of the golden age of luxury department stores, and the trailblazing women who ran them.</strong></h4><p>The twentieth century department store: a wonderland of consumption where every wish could be met under one roof. Dropping off the baby at nursery; an afternoon tea; a stroll through the latest fashions. A wedding (or funeral) could be planned. A Bengal Tiger cub could be purchased.</p><p>Inside these towering price-tag palaces, anything was possible. They were beacons of modernity, and within this atmosphere of glamour and luxury, women dominated. Men may have owned the buildings, but inside women ruled.<
