The Girl in White Gloves

About the book

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.

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.



My Review


What woman has never dreamed and pretended she was Grace Kelly. She was living a Cinderella story. Honestly I don't know all the intimate details about Grace Kelly. Thus I wanted to read this book. Plus, I did like this author's prior novel, The Kennedy Debutante. Author, Kerri Maher does draw me into Grace's world with her writing.

Yet, as much as I liked getting to know about Grace Kelly, I found myself not engaged in the story. It was a bit dry for me. After getting about a third of the way into the book and not feeling the story or retaining anything I was reading; I sadly put the book down.



About the author

Kerri Maher is the author of The Kennedy Debutante, which People magazine described as “a riveting reimagining of a true tale of forbidden love,” and This Is Not a Writing Manual: Notes for the Young Writer in the Real World under the name Kerri Majors. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and founded YARN, an award-winning literary journal of short-form YA writing. A writing professor for many years, she now writes full time and lives with her daughter and dog in a leafy suburb west of Boston, Massachusetts.

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