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 PBSβs Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of historyβs most remarkable women: Winston Churchillβs 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 Jennieβreared in the luxury of Gilded Age Newport and the Paris of the Second Empireβlived 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, sheβs 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 husbandβs rise in Parliament and her young sonβs difficult passage through boyhood. But as the familyβs influence soars, scandals explode and tragedy befalls the Churchills. Jennie is inescapably drawn to the brilliant and seductive Count Charles Kinskyβdiplomat, skilled horse-racer, deeply passionate lover. Their impossible affair only intensifies as Randolph Churchillβs sanity frays, and Jennieβa woman whose every move on the public stage is judgedβmust walk a tightrope between duty and desire. Forced to decide where her heart truly belongs, Jennie risks everythingβeven her sonβand disrupts lives, including her own, on both sides of the Atlantic.
Breathing new life into Jennieβs legacy and the gilded world over which she reigned, That Churchill Woman paints a portrait of the difficultβand sometimes impossibleβbalance between love, freedom, and obligation, while capturing the spirit of an unforgettable woman, one who altered the course of history.
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