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Henry Holt
June 2006
Featuring: Claude Reynaud; Valentine de Verlay
320 pages
ISBN: 0805080333
Hardcover
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Romance Contemporary | Women's Fiction Contemporary
In this romantic debut novel, a reserved provincial French
tailor falls head over heels in love with a woman who's
hired him to create her wedding dress Claude Reynaud is a bit of a throwback, an old-fashioned
dressmaker working in a cluttered studio outside modern-day
Paris, quietly designing his famous gowns by hand. Every
spring he ushers pretty young society brides into his
studio, measures them, and designs their dresses without
ever contemplating for himself the sort of romance that
will lead these ladies and their grooms to the altar. But one afternoon a woman arrives who shatters his
composure: Valentine de Verlay is charming, beautiful, a
lady of society, and, of course, engaged. She comes with no
instructions for her wedding dress, just a beautiful
figure, a long graceful neck, and total faith in her
dressmaker. Claude, forty-six years old, devoted to his
work, and long since deserted by his wife, finds himself
smitten. As Valentine's wedding approaches, his commitment to her
dress makes it impossible for Claude to keep a safe
distance, and everything he's come to rely on in his small,
focused life looks ready to collapse. Worse still, as he is
welcomed into her circle of friends and family, it appears
that the betrothed Valentine may share his feelings.
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