The Sunday Times bestseller and one of the most talked-about novels of 2003, now in paperback. Elegance. Audrey Hepburn had it. Grace Kelly had it. Louise Canova does not. Until one day, browsing in a second-hand bookshop, Louise stumbles over a faded hardback. Elegance is an A-Z of style, written by French fashion expert, Madame Antoine Dariaux: a veritable what-not-to-wear in print. When Louise starts to follow Madame's advice, her life is transformed. From Accessories to Zippers, there is ...
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The Sunday Times bestseller and one of the most talked-about novels of 2003, now in paperback. Elegance. Audrey Hepburn had it. Grace Kelly had it. Louise Canova does not. Until one day, browsing in a second-hand bookshop, Louise stumbles over a faded hardback. Elegance is an A-Z of style, written by French fashion expert, Madame Antoine Dariaux: a veritable what-not-to-wear in print. When Louise starts to follow Madame's advice, her life is transformed. From Accessories to Zippers, there is nothing Madame cannot advise upon, including types of husband (the blind, the ideal, the dictator) and shopping with girlfriends (don't). Within the book's pages Louise finds clues to her own past. And as she begins to unravel them, she discovers a courage she never thought possible. For true elegance cannot be attained until she is comfortable in her own skin: only then might love flourish.
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Good. The Sunday Times bestseller and one of the most talked-about novels of 2003, now in paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 25. Weight in Grams: 278. Clean copy. 2011. Mass Market Paperback.....
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Louise Canova is unhappy with her life. Then she finds a 40-year-old encyclopedia of style titled ?Elegance?, by French fashion expert Madame Genevieve Antoine Dariaux. In her novel, based on this actual book, Ms. Tessaro gives us a heroine that we might recognize all too well.
Madame Dariaux?s book has a dramatic impact on Louise?s life. The experience of discovery is one that will be familiar to many book lovers.
Excerpt:
It was a slim, gray volume entitled ?Elegance?. Longer and thinner than the other books on the shelf, it rose above its modest surroundings with a disdainful authority, the embossed letters of its title sparkling against the silver satin cover like a glittering gold coin just below the surface of a rushing brook.
My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. But either you intrinsically understand the attraction of searching for hidden treasure amongst rows of dusty shelves or you don?t; it?s a passion, bordering on a spiritual illness, which cannot be explained to the unafflicted.
End of excerpt.
The ups and downs Louise goes through as she tries to change her style and the challenge of being truly ?elegant? are inspiring and frustrating to read. Is becoming an elegant lady as easy as it seems or is it too overwhelming?