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An essay about Brenda’s inspiration for The Grace Kelly Dress. [Download the pdf.]
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Chosen by The Good Book Fairy as a Favorite Winter Read.
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The Grace Kelly Dress was a March Pick on Frolic.
Picked by Bustle as one of the books to read during the quarantine!
Chosen by SheReads as an inspiring read for Women’s History Month!
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The Grace Kelly Dress
Optioned for film by Hallmark/ Crown Media
Featured in Newsday and Good Morning America.
One dress. Three generations of women. A lifetime of love.
Paris, 1958: Rose, a seamstress at a fashionable atelier, has been entrusted with sewing a Grace Kelly—look-alike gown for a wealthy bride-to-be. But when, against better judgment, she finds herself falling in love with the bride’s handsome brother, Rose must make an impossible choice, one that could put all she’s worked for at risk: love, security and of course, the dress.
Sixty years later, tech CEO Rachel, who goes by the childhood nickname “Rocky,” has inherited the dress for her upcoming wedding in New York City. But there’s just one problem: Rocky doesn’t want to wear it. A family heirloom dating back to the 1950s, the dress just isn’t her. Rocky knows this admission will break her mother Joan’s heart. But what she doesn’t know is why Joan insists on the dress—or the heartbreaking secret that changed her mother’s life decades before, as she herself prepared to wear it.
As the lives of these three women come together in surprising ways, the revelation of the dress’s history collides with long-buried family heartaches. And in the lead-up to Rocky’s wedding, they’ll have to confront the past before they can embrace the beautiful possibilities of the future.
The Reading with Renee March Book Club Pick
The #ReadWithBookClubbish May Book Club Pick
Featured in Newsday.
Picked by Good Morning America as one of the books to read while you’re stuck at home!
ABC News says: “This is a story about the complexities of families and the traditions that keep them together.”
Featured in VOGUE Thailand!
Prevention Magazine calls it one of the “15 New Books That Will Give You the Mental Escape We All Need Right Now”
Watch Kristin Harmel discuss The Grace Kelly Dress on air at WESH News!
As seen in Publisher’s Weekly.
Fresh Fiction says: “The Grace Kelly Dress is truly a work of art.”
One of PopSugar’s Best Books of Spring!
Featured in Westport Magazine.
Featured in Good Life Family Magazine.
5 Questions with Syosset Public Library.
Featured on Grace Influential, the new initiative spearheaded by the Princess Grace Foundation.
“The Grace Kelly Dress is the perfect vacation read. A charming, heartfelt novel about three generations of women who are connected by the gorgeous gown that each wears on her wedding day. Fast paced and entertaining from beginning to end.”
“With The Grace Kelly Dress [Brenda] has stitched together a seamless intergenerational modern-day fairy tale, with a very contemporary twist.”
“A truly wonderful read!”
“Told with Brenda Janowitz’s characteristic humor and insight, The Grace Kelly Dress is a winner.”
“Fans of Emily Giffin and Jennifer Weiner should say ‘yes’ to this tale of three generations of women whose lives are touched by one iconic dress. I loved it!”
“Janowitz’s latest is just like the multi-generational wedding dress of the title: elegant, layered, and utterly original. She once again delivers a powerful story brimming with love.”