Three girls went to school in Paris and became friends. Years later Gina returns to Paris after her family lost their fortune and she lost a fiancé. Gina’s surprised to find Charlotte working in her family restaurant. Charlotte always wanted to be a chef in a fancy restaurant. Charlotte returned to her roots when her mother died and her father needed help. Neither of them has heard from Margot in years.
One day, they run into Margot at the Dior store. She’s working under a different name and doesn’t want to be recognized. They bully her into meeting them after work where she tells them the bare minimum about her life. She’s looking over her shoulder and doesn’t want to put her friends in harm’s way.
But Gina and Charlotte refuse to take no for an answer. Luck smiled at them when a family friend left them an apartment above Charlotte’s family restaurant. They convince Margot to join them. Now that they are back together, the three of them decide to go after their dreams.
The Paris Gown takes a look at three girls from different backgrounds trying to make their mark in the world. A Dior gown falls into their laps and they share it as needed. The dress showcases the strength of their friendship, even when they don’t agree with each other’s choices. The setting is amazing; it will make you want to travel to Paris. This historical fiction novel about friendship is one to read and pass along. I can see this becoming a book club book.
From perennially popular historical novelist Christine Wells, the delightful tale of three young women in 1950s Paris who share a single dazzling Christian Dior gown.
Paris, 1955
Three friends—Claire, Gina, and Margot—who parted as very young women with their whole lives ahead of them, reunite in Paris years later, determined to start life anew.
Parisian Claire has been working hard to become a Michelin-starred chef one day, but ever since the heady time she spent in the company of socialites Gina and Margot, her dream has been to own a Dior gown. This seemed like a far-off fantasy, until the eccentric and wealthy Madame Vaughn, who lives above Claire’s family brasserie, abruptly leaves Paris, asking Claire to mind her apartment. More bafflingly, Madame Vaughn also makes Claire a very special gift: a stunning Dior gown.
Meanwhile Gina, a cool American blue blood, lands on Claire’s doorstep nursing a broken heart and a broken engagement after her father lost all of the family money in a risky business venture. A journalist aspiring to be a novelist, Gina has returned to Paris in the hopes of pursuing her dream. But when her father begs her to attend the United States Embassy ball in the hopes of persuading Hal Sanders, her former fiancé, to invest in her father’s new business venture, she is torn. She wants to help her father, but seeing Hal again will be exquisitely painful. And what on earth is she going to wear?
Warm-hearted Claire insists Gina wear the Dior gown to the ball, and after some hesitation, Gina accepts. At Dior for Gina’s fitting, who should assist them but Margot, the friend they thought had gone back to Australia to be married. But Margot is living in Paris and working at Dior under an assumed name, and clearly, she is not happy to have been found.
Is their close friendship at an end? Or will the wonder and delight of the Dior gown bring these young women back together?
Gorgeous, perfectly fitted, lustrous and luxurious, the Dior gown has the power to change lives—as these three remarkable women are about to discover…
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