Laura Thompson’s chronicle of the lives of wealthy heiresses and debutantes throughout the ages promises to be a quick, witty romp but ends up dragging tiresomely onward.
Mexico, 1950. A young woman named Noemí Taboada receives word that her cousin Catalina Doyle has been acting strangely. Amongst other things, Catalina has been experiencing visions and is convinced that her husband Virgil is plotting to murder her. Noemí’s father suspects that this is merely a ...