THE GRACE KELLY DRESS

Grace Kelly's stunning wedding dress is one of the most iconic of the 20th century and has inspired many bridal gowns since. Brenda Janowitz's beguiling new novel imagines one such dress and the three generations of women whose lives are touched by it. One dress. Three generations of women. A lifetime of love.

In 1958 Paris, Grace Kelly's wedding dress is all the craze. Rose, a seamstress at a fashionable atelier, has been commissioned to create yet another gown in its image. But when Rose finds herself falling in love with the bride's handsome brother, her life becomes more complicated than ever before, as the fate of the dress hangs in the balance.
Sixty years later, Rocky is thrilled to be marrying the love of her life. He truly is her perfect fit. But there's just one problem: her family's heirloom wedding dress isn't. Rocky knows this will break her mother's heart, but what she doesn't know is why her mother is so set on the dress - or about the shocking secret that changed her mother's life forever decades before.
Now, the mother-daughter pair must contend with family rivalries, misunderstandings, and heartache as the countdown to the wedding begins.

BRENDA JANOWITZ is the author of five novels, including The Dinner Party and Recipe for a Happy Life. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Salon.