A warm and radiant memoir of growing up in the Twenties and Thirties set against the backgrounds of New York, the booming Florida Gold Coast, and Southern California in the heyday of its cinematic glory.Dorothy Peniston was a free spirit in the best sense of the word - plucky, always eager for new adventure, resourceful, high-spirited, a compelling challenger to every man who ever wooed her. She faced the Ups of the Twenties and Downs of the Thirties with remarkable humor and self-containment. Nothing could really sink the indomitable Dorothy Peniston; she had an enormous capacity to live life to the brim, and her influence on her contemporaries was infectious. With the charm and savoir vive that only a woman of her breeding could display, she took her crowded days as they came – always upbeat, never complaining, reserving her singular warmth and love for the people and events that are so brightly recalled in this haunting memoir. Dorothy Peniston’s gift for laughter, for friendship, for sheer enjoyment, is a vivid reminder of the good times shared by a special group of people between the wars and of how men and women of her class enjoyed the best years of their lives.