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Simon and Schuster
April 2016
On Sale: April 12, 2016
290 pages
ISBN: 144238607X
EAN: 9781442386075
Kindle: B010MH9WL8
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
From William Norwich, the well-known fashion writer and
editor, an unforgettable novel about a woman with a
secret who travels to New York City on a determined quest
to buy a special dress that represents everything she
wants to say about that secret…and herself. Sometimes a dress isn’t just a dress. Emilia Brown is a woman of a certain age. She has spent a
frugal, useful, and wholly restrained life in Ashville, a
small town in Rhode Island. Overlooked especially by the
industries of fashion and media, Mrs. Brown is one of
today’s silent generations of women whose quiet no-frills
existences would make them seem invisible. She is a
genteel woman who has known her share of personal sorrows
and quietly carried on, who makes a modest living
cleaning and running errands at the local beauty parlor,
who delights in evening chats with her much younger
neighbor, twenty-three-year-old Alice Danvers. When the grand dame of Ashville passes away, Mrs. Brown
is called upon to inventory her estate and comes across a
dress that changes everything. This isn’t a Cinderella
confection; it’s a simple yet exquisitely tailored Oscar
de la Renta sheath and jacket—a suit that Mrs. Brown
realizes, with startling clarity, will say everything she
has ever wished to convey. She must have it. And so Mrs.
Brown begins her odyssey to purchase the dress. For not
only is the owning of the Oscar de la Renta a must, the
intimidating trip to purchase it on Madison Avenue is
essential as well. If the dress is to give Mrs. Brown a
voice, then she must prepare by making the daunting
journey—both to the emerald city and within herself. Timeless, poignant, and appealing, My Mrs. Brown is a
novel for every mother in the world, every woman who ever
wanted the perfect dress, and every child who wanted to
give it to her.
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