TITLE: The Girl In White Gloves
CHARACTERS: Grace
AUTHOR: Kerri Maher
PUBLICATION DATE: 02/25/20
ORDER LINKS: Amazon | B&N
BOOK SYNOPSIS:
A life in snapshots…
Grace knows what people see. She’s the Cinderella story. An icon of glamor and elegance frozen in dazzling Technicolor. The picture of perfection. The girl in white gloves.
A woman in living color…
But behind the lens, beyond the panoramic views of glistening Mediterranean azure, she knows the truth. The sacrifices it takes for an unappreciated girl from Philadelphia to defy her family and become the reigning queen of the screen. The heartbreaking reasons she trades Hollywood for a crown. The loneliness of being a princess in a fairy tale kingdom that is all too real.
Hardest of all for her adoring fans and loyal subjects to comprehend, is the harsh reality that to be the most envied woman in the world does not mean she is the happiest. Starved for affection and purpose, facing a labyrinth of romantic and social expectations with more twists and turns than Monaco’s infamous winding roads, Grace must find her own way to fulfillment. But what she risks–her art, her family, her marriage—she may never get back.
REVIEW:
As a HUGE fan of Grace Kelly I knew I was going to read this book come hell or high water. Luckily neither needed I just had to ask. I have read a number of biographies about Grace Kelly and know her story as much as the next fan does so I know that a number of liberties were taken with the writing of this story but then it is not being published as a biography so I was fine with the liberties and believed that maybe someone who reads this will go back and get a biography of her life and read the real Grace.
That being said the story is wonderful. The romance of Hollywood is not all we believe and even though we thought of her life as perfect it was far from it. And her life as a Princess was not all that wonderful either.
The reader flows through this book as Grace Kelly flowed on screen. The writing is great and as someone who can picture Grace Kelly in not only her fairy tale wedding dress but her beautiful “every day” clothes I could picture her on every page that was read.
Disclaimer:
I received a complimentary copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.
4 Hearts
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