Justine Picardie, Author . Riverhead $23.95 (258p) ISBN 978-1-57322-211-2
As an editor at London's Observer, Picardie hired her younger sister, Ruth, to write a series of columns chronicling her personal experiences with breast cancer. After submitting only a few essays, Ruth, the mother of two-year-old twins, died at
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Justine Picardie, Author . Bloomsbury $22.95 (239p) ISBN 978-1-59691-149-9
A former British Vogue
editor turned novelist (Wish I May
) offers a stylish treatment of the significance of clothes to their owners and admirers. A black wedding dress belonging to Picardie's mother circa 1960 became the author's perfect...
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Justine Picardie, Author . Bloomsbury $24.95 (405p) ISBN 978-1-59691-341-7
Former British
Vogue
editor Picardie (My Mother's Wedding Dress
) gives us a fictional life of Rebecca
novelist Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989) that founders in obsession. In the late 1950s, du Maurier, determined to establish herself as a serious
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Justine Picardie. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (448p) ISBN 978-0-3742-1035-9
Journalist Picardie (Coco Chanel) offers an evocative yet thin biography of Catherine Dior (1917–2008), the youngest sister of couturier Christian Dior and the inspiration for Miss Dior perfume. Raised at the family’s estate in Normandy, Catherine...
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Justine Picardie. Pegasus, $35 (384p) ISBN 979-8-89710-013-2
Novelist and fashion writer Picardie (Coco Chanel) takes a thorough look at the 20th-century British royal family through the lens of high fashion and public image making. Picardie focuses on the lifetime of Elizabeth II (1926–2022), with occasional
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