The gypsy woman said the dress was special, that it had the
power to change the future of the one who wore it. All Anna
knew was that she had to have it, but that sparkling,
dazzling little black dress would ultimately change Anna's
life, and the lives of all those she loved, forever. Was it
worth the price?
In Susan McBride's latest novel, LITTLE BLACK DRESS, family
secrets, romance, and elements of magic mix together to
form a fascinating novel that follows two generations of
strong women and a little dress that held them entranced.
Evie Ashton knew that someday her secrets would be
discovered, it was inevitable. But she was determined that
she would be the one to reveal the truth that had long
haunted her family. So, although her health was fragile,
she climbed the stairs to the attic to find the little
black dress that started all the trouble all those years
ago.
Living in St. Louis, Antonia Ashton is a successful
business woman with her own thriving wedding planning
business and a relationship that seems to be going so-so.
But when her mother, Evie, suffers a stroke, Toni is forced
to return to her home of Blue Hills, Missouri, a place she
thought she had escaped. She arrives to find her mother in
a medicated coma, and a houseful of secrets just begging to
be unraveled.
After being told that Evie was discovered in the attic
wearing an old black dress, Toni is determined to find out
why that dress was so important to her mother that she
would risk her health going after it. With the help of
Bridget, her mother's long-time friend and housekeeper,
Toni stumbles across more mysteries than she ever dreamed
existed in her childhood home. Antonia vows to uncover
these secrets and understand her mother's life, before it
is too late, including the story of her aunt Anna who
disappeared fifty years ago on the night before her
wedding. But would finding the truth be worth the grief
that was sure to accompany it?
LITTLE BLACK DRESS is absolutely enchanting. Elements of
magic and mystery float lightly in an ongoing story of the
age-old mother/daughter struggle to understand each other.
McBride tells the story in both the voice of Evie and Toni,
and it is a tale that will linger with readers long after
the last page is turned. I highly recommend this book to
kick off your late summer/fall reading.
Two sisters whose lives seemed forever intertwined are torn
apart when a magical little black dress gives each one a
glimpse of an unavoidable future.
Antonia Ashton has worked hard to build a thriving career
and a committed relationship, but she realizes her life has
gone off track. Forced to return home to Blue Hills when her
mother, Evie, suffers a massive stroke, Toni finds the old
Victorian where she grew up as crammed full of secrets as it
is with clutter. Now she must put her mother’s house in
order—and uncover long-buried truths about Evie and her
aunt, Anna, who vanished fifty years earlier on the eve of
her wedding. By shedding light on the past, Toni illuminates
her own mistakes and learns the most unexpected things about
love, magic, and a little black dress with the power to
break hearts . . . and mend them.
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