the gown book club review

Although I had hoped that this story was based on one of the actual women who worked on Queen Elizabeths gown it is not I still really enjoyed the story that Jennifer created. An enthralling historical novel about one of the most famous wedding dresses of the twentieth centuryQueen Elizabeths wedding gownand the fascinating women who made it.

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The one bright spot was the upcoming wedding of the heiress presumptive to the throne Princess.

. If you love to sew or embroider or knit and if you love the history of those things then I think The Gown may work beautifully for you. With its 10000 seed pearls sewn into ivory silk the gown seems to be an extravagance that might be. The same is true for the working people.

It was ironic I picked the novel before Prince Harry and Princess. Evocative enchanting and beautifully written. A friend whose bookclub has picked The Gown just learned that the Holocaust plays a role in the book.

The Gown GoodReads Kirkus The Washington Post Book Companion This is an enthralling historical novel about one of the most famous wedding dresses of the twentieth. The book is the intersecting story of two women Miriam and Ann who worked on Princess Elizabeth. I really did enjoy it.

The descriptive details in this novel are gorgeous. The Gown is a captivating sentimental tale predominantly set in London post-WWII as well as present day that follows the lives of three. There are a handful of moments where Robson used foul.

I picked The Gown after an ARC came to my mailbox for our book club. The perspective taken in The Gown was especially unique. Ann Hughes is a.

Its a lovely work about female friendships. The Gown imagines the lives of two of the talented women who embroidered Princess Elizabeths wedding gown in Norman Hartnells atelier in 1947. From the description of Anns first bite of spaghetti to the intricate detail of the heather design on the gown to the garden at Kazs.

On to the book that Im attempting to review. My friend find herself very upset over that event and is leery about reading another book. A third perspective and modern timeline follows one of their granddaughters who travels to London a half century later to unravel her grandmothers mysterious and secret past.

The only caution I would offer is to the conservative reader. Over all I thought The Gown was superbly enjoyable. The gown itself is really a backdrop for humanity.

Our book club will be discussing the book in June. Talk about the symbolic importance of the gown with regards to the British public. It takes so much effort to create something that beautiful but it is worth doing.

There was still rationing of fuel to heat tiny rooms and even soap and potatoes were scarce. Though the book is subtitled A Novel of the Royal Wedding and the cover depicts the wedding of now Queen Elizabeth II the story.

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