Heather Webb
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In Cannes for the film festival, Grace Kelly wants only to escape from the flash-bulbs. Struggling perfumer Sophie Duval shelters Miss Kelly in her boutique, fending off James Henderson, a persistent British press photographer. Despite his guilt at being away from his daughter, Henderson takes an assignment to cover the wedding of the century, sailing with Grace Kelly's wedding party on the SS Constitution from New York. In Monaco, as wedding fever...
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In late eighteenth-century France, women do not have a place in politics. But as the tide of revolution rises, women from gilded salons to the streets of Paris decide otherwise, upending a world order that has long oppressed them. Blue-blooded Sophie de Grouchy believes in democracy, education, and equal rights for women, and marries the only man in Paris who agrees. Emboldened to fight the injustices of King Louis XVI, Sophie aims to prove that an...