It seems that Grace Kelly struggled with finding her voice, feeling self-confident, realizing her career goals, and establishing a loving, mutually respectful relationship.
This story dispells those perceptions and I was left with feelings of sadness. Glamorous and Beautiful: Like many Grace Kelly fans, I had a romanticized, idealized image of the glamorous Grace Kelly. Image Source: Wikipedia Image Source: Beyond Grace Kelly My Thoughts:
In this highly fictionalized biographical historical fiction of the life of an American actress turned princess, we get a glimpse into Grace Kelly‘s childhood dreams, her rise to fame, and her eventual royal life as Princess of Monaco. Thanks #netgalley #berkleypub for a free e ARC of #thegirlinwhitegloves by Kerri Maher in exchange for an honest review. *This post contains Amazon affiliate links. My James Joyce and Sylvia Beach would be different from yours, if you were to write the same novel.Genre/Categories: Biographical Historical Fiction, Historical Romance And so, you know, I feel like I have to really embrace that tension and the truth that I’m interpreting. It is necessarily an interpretation of Sylvia’s life, of Joyce’s life, of Hemingway’s life. But at the same time, I’m holding this other reality in my mind, which is that it is a novel. And so, we do a lot of research to make sure that we have her voice and I have her voice in my ear and, you know, the other characters like James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway. On the one hand, I want to do right by Sylvia Beach because she really she really did live this amazing life. Kerri Maher: I feel like there’s this really interesting and sometimes difficult, but ultimately productive, tension in a historical novel, in particular, a biographical novel like this one, which is about a woman who really walked on planet Earth.
On today’s episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplan talks to Kerri Maher about her latest novel, The Paris Bookseller, out now from Berkley Books.
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