Searching for Grace Kelly

For a small-town girl with big dreams in 1955, there is no address more desirable than New York's Barbizon Hotel - the place where Grace Kelly lived when she first came to the big city.

Laura is an aristocratic beauty from Connecticut who arrives with a magazine internship and dreams of becoming a writer

Dolly is a hopeless romantic working the secretarial pool and looking to be swept off her feet

Vivian is a red-headed British bombshell who yearns to make it as a singer while working nights as a cigarette girl

Perfect for fans of Mad Men, The Best of Everything and The Paris Wife, this is a novel filled to the brim with glamour, following the lives of three women as they are lured into the exhilarating, dazzling world of New York City and embark on a journey that will alter their lives for ever.

Short-listed for Love Stories Awards 2015 (UK)

“A wonderful champagne bubble of a book-glamorous, aspirational, and relatable! The fifties never seemed so fun! Wicked, naughty and clever. - Melissa de la Cruz, author of Witches of East EndDeliciously stylish. Callahan suavely combines literary finesse and pulp fiction to create a fast-moving, heartwrenching tale of romance and tragedy in a time of tyrannically sexist social conventions. - BooklistThis tale of big dreams, drop-dead glamour and fragile hearts will have you turning pages late into the night... Suspenseful, sharp and romantic, I loved every minute of it. - Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New BlackI was completely charmed by this book! - John Searles, author of Help for the Haunted”

A wonderful champagne bubble of a book-glamorous, aspirational, and relatable! The fifties never seemed so fun! Wicked, naughty and clever. - Melissa de la Cruz, author of Witches of East End

Deliciously stylish. Callahan suavely combines literary finesse and pulp fiction to create a fast-moving, heartwrenching tale of romance and tragedy in a time of tyrannically sexist social conventions. - Booklist

This tale of big dreams, drop-dead glamour and fragile hearts will have you turning pages late into the night... Suspenseful, sharp and romantic, I loved every minute of it. - Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black

I was completely charmed by this book! - John Searles, author of Help for the Haunted

M. G. Callahan is an experienced journalist who has just taken a new position as Contributing Editor for Vanity Fair.

For a small-town girl with big dreams in 1955, there is no address more desirable than New York's Barbizon Hotel - the place where Grace Kelly lived when she first came to the big city. Laura is an aristocratic beauty from Connecticut who arrives with a magazine internship and dreams of becoming a writerDolly is a hopeless romantic working the secretarial pool and looking to be swept off her feetVivian is a red-headed British bombshell who yearns to make it as a singer while working nights as a cigarette girl Perfect for fans of Mad Men, The Best of Everything and The Paris Wife , this is a novel filled to the brim with glamour, following the lives of three women as they are lured into the exhilarating, dazzling world of New York City and embark on a journey that will alter their lives for ever.

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