"Nobody knows the people of Wooster\, Ohio\, better th an switchboard operator Vivian Dalton\, and she'd be the first to tell you that. She calls it intuition. Her teenage daughter\, Charlotte\, calls it eavesdropping. Vivian and the other women who work at Bell on East Libert y Street connect lines and lives. They aren't supposed to listen in on con versations\, but they do\, and they all have opinions on what they hear\, especially Vivian. She knows that Mrs. Butler's ungrateful daughter\, Maxi ne\, still hasn't thanked her mother for the quilt she made\, and that Gin ny Frazier turned down yet another invitation to go to the A&\;W with C lyde Walsh. Then\, one cold December night\, Vivian listens in on a call b etween that snob Betty Miller and someone whose voice she can't quite plac e and hears something shocking. Betty Miller's mystery friend has news tha t\, if true\, will shatter Vivian's tidy life in Wooster\, humiliating her and making her the laughingstock of the town. Vivian may be mortified\, b ut she isn't going to take this lying down. She's going to get to the bott om of that rumor\, get into it\, get under it\, poke around in the corners . Find every last bit. Vivian wants the truth\, no matter how painful it m ay be. But as Vivian is about to be reminded\, in a small town like Wooste r\, one secret usually leads to another..."
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