5/22/2023 0 Comments Meet Me in Monaco by Hazel Gaynor![]() ![]() ![]() Even if you’re not a big follower of Hollywood stories, you know about the Cannes Film Festival. The story starts off during the Cannes Film Festival, which is the height of glitz and glamour for the film industry. When struggling perfumer Sophie Duval shelters Miss Kelly in her boutique to fend off a persistent British press photographer, James Henderson, a bond is forged between the two women and sets in motion a chain of events that stretches across thirty years of friendship, love and tragedy. ![]() Their lives are changed forever by their chance encounter with Grace Kelly who is about to become a princess. In Meet Me in Monaco, actress Grace Kelly serves as somewhat of a fairy godmother to both a young French perfumer and a British press photographer. It’s a similar style done well with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in The Editor by Steven Rowley and Queen Elizabeth II, or rather her dress, in The Gown by Jennifer Robson. However, the twist is that the famous person is not the main protagonist but rather a supporting character who is essential to the plot. So I figured out my favorite kind of historical fiction book: when authors take a real-life figure and bring them back to life on the pages. ![]()
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