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Title: Searching for Grace Kelly
Author: M. G. Callahan
Narrator: Laurel Lefkow
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-18-15
Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
In 1955 New York City is full of postwar euphoria and glamour, and the Barbizon Hotel - the place where Grace Kelly lived when she first came to the big city - is where young women from good families stay while they launch their careers and wait for Mr Right to come calling with a dozen roses and a date night at El Morocco.
Laura, a patrician beauty from Connecticut, arrives with a magazine internship and dreams of becoming a writer; Dolly, a sweet, small-town girl is working the secretarial pool and looking to be swept off her feet; and Vivian, a redheaded British bombshell with a palpable disdain for rules, yearns to make it as a singer while working nights as a cigarette girl.
As the young women become friends, their lives get swept into the exhilarating, heart-breaking maelstrom of New York City.
Critic Reviews:
"A wonderful champagne bubble of a book - glamorous, aspirational, and relatable! The fifties never seemed so fun! Wicked, naughty and clever." (Melissa de la Cruz, New York Times best-selling author of Witches of East End)
"This tale of big dreams, drop-dead glamour and fragile hearts will have you turning pages late into the night.... Suspenseful, sharp and romantic, I loved every minute of it." (Piper Kerman, best-selling author of Orange Is the New Black)
"I was completely charmed by this book!" (John Searles, best-selling author of Help for the Haunted)
"Deliciously stylish. Callahan suavely combines literary finesse and pulp fiction to create a fast-moving, heartwrenching tale of romance and tragedy in a time of tyrannically sexist social conventions." (Booklist)
Members Reviews:
Always mention of Grace Kelly in the coffee shop at The Barbizon by the wait staff
An interesting read for me as I lived at the Barbizon Hotel for Women in 1956 and 1957. I was in school in NYC and my mother was sure The Barbizon was one safe haven for her only child. I could write my own real version of 8 friends from all different places and the experience of leaving N.C. for big city life. I met my future husband on a weekend home and left the city to marry, raise a family and live in N.C. The book was a nostalgic step back to those years. New York stayed in my blood and I still find it has an electricity all its own.
I wanted to love this book....
My Mom was a Katie Gibbs girl, living in the Barbizon briefly in the mid-1950's. So I was hoping for a glimpse of her life in New York. Instead, the characters were not very compelling and the plot line rather obvious. Struggled to get past the midway point but I just finished it with a sense of...meh.
DELIGHTGUL FUN...
Reading the customer reviews have always been very helpful to me, so hopefully I can return the favor. SEARCHING FOR GRACE KELLY was, for me, a delightful read; sort of the bite of lime sherbert to cleanse your palate between courses at a fancy dinner. I am a baby boomer, now in my 60s, and worked in Manhattan in the 1960s. These two facts sparked a warm reminiscence for me, even evoking a number of deja vu moments.
Some readers may find the characters and premise simplistic. However, being a woman who grew up in that time I can tell you that life WAS more simplistic; the pace slower. If you are looking for a story of drama and characters filled with family r knead, this might not be the book for you. If you ate looking for a light-hearted romp through the 1950s in NYC this is a book you will enjoy. Having read Goldfi.
