Ballantine Books
February 2019
On Sale: January 22, 2019
Featuring: Jennie Jerome (Lady Randolph Churchill); Randolph Churchill; Bertie, Prince of Wales
400 pages ISBN: 1524799564 EAN: 9781524799564 Kindle: B07CR4XZY7 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
The Paris Wife meets PBSโs Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of historyโs most remarkable women: Winston Churchillโs scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome.
Wealthy, privileged, and fiercely independent New Yorker Jennie Jerome took Victorian England by storm when she landed on its shores. As Lady Randolph Churchill, she gave birth to a man who defined the twentieth century: her son Winston. But Jennieโreared in the luxury of Gilded Age Newport and the Paris of the Second Empireโlived an outrageously modern life all her own, filled with controversy, passion, tragedy, and triumph.
When the nineteen-year-old beauty agrees to marry the son of a duke she has known only three days, sheโs instantly swept up in a whirlwind of British politics and the breathless social climbing of the Marlborough House Set, the reckless men who surround Bertie, Prince of Wales. Raised to think for herself and careless of English society rules, the new Lady Randolph Churchill quickly becomes a London sensation: adored by some, despised by others.
Artistically gifted and politically shrewd, she shapes her husbandโs rise in Parliament and her young sonโs difficult passage through boyhood. But as the familyโs influence soars, scandals explode and tragedy befalls the Churchills. Jennie is inescapably drawn to the brilliant and seductive Count Charles Kinskyโdiplomat, skilled horse-racer, deeply passionate lover. Their impossible affair only intensifies as Randolph Churchillโs sanity frays, and Jennieโa woman whose every move on the public stage is judgedโmust walk a tightrope between duty and desire. Forced to decide where her heart truly belongs, Jennie risks everythingโeven her sonโand disrupts lives, including her own, on both sides of the Atlantic.
Breathing new life into Jennieโs legacy and the gilded world over which she reigned, That Churchill Woman paints a portrait of the difficultโand sometimes impossibleโbalance between love, freedom, and obligation, while capturing the spirit of an unforgettable woman, one who altered the course of history.
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