The Pink Suit by Nicole Mary Kelby
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
This book seemed to have so much promise but sadly it failed to deliver.
The story is based around the suit that Jackie Kennedy wore the day that JFK was assassinated and the fictional part of the book was the story of the young dressmaker who copied the original Chanel design in raspberry pink for the First Lady which became iconic but for all the wrong reasons.
Before I read the book, I knew nothing about what actually happened to Jackie on the day of the assassination, I didn't know that she insisted on wearing the blood stained suit when her husband's successor was sworn in on Air Force One, declaring "let them see what they have done."
The book was really just a narrative about sewing, Chanel, and now and then a few references to then references to Maision Blanche.
I wouldn't recommend this book, it didn't really go anywhere, the story was the run up to the assassination, and whilst I was waiting to see how the dress maker would feel when she heard about the horrible fate of the suit she'd made, that happened right at the end of the book, literally the last four pages.
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My rating: 2 of 5 stars
This book seemed to have so much promise but sadly it failed to deliver.
The story is based around the suit that Jackie Kennedy wore the day that JFK was assassinated and the fictional part of the book was the story of the young dressmaker who copied the original Chanel design in raspberry pink for the First Lady which became iconic but for all the wrong reasons.
Before I read the book, I knew nothing about what actually happened to Jackie on the day of the assassination, I didn't know that she insisted on wearing the blood stained suit when her husband's successor was sworn in on Air Force One, declaring "let them see what they have done."
The book was really just a narrative about sewing, Chanel, and now and then a few references to then references to Maision Blanche.
I wouldn't recommend this book, it didn't really go anywhere, the story was the run up to the assassination, and whilst I was waiting to see how the dress maker would feel when she heard about the horrible fate of the suit she'd made, that happened right at the end of the book, literally the last four pages.
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