Not an author I've read before, but my Mum always enjoyed her books and it seemed appropriate when this was given to me that I should give it a try.

Four young women in the US are invited to attend a coming out ball at the Palace of Versailles in the 1950s, and whilst the story nominally is about all 4 of them, it's definitely skewed to mainly be about 2.  They are all fairly flat, stereotypical women of a certain social standing, who despite having brains are ultimately taken up by the excitement of the ball and the possibility of finding romance.

We are expected to believe that having spent mere hours in the young men's presence they all know themselves to be absolutely in love, and suddenly they are all about marriage rather than their education...

Many people have told me that Steele's books are formulaic, if not downright repeating the same stories, but this could honestly have been written by AI.  The repetition was insane, even from one paragraph to the next - the novel needed a serious editing and then perhaps I could have overlooked the somewhat trite storyline and enjoyed it for an easy beach read