What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Daughters of Fortune
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SOLVED. Two half-sisters, in English boarding school, then one goes to fashion school in Paris [s]
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This is tickling my brain that I've read this, or seen a summary of it. Will keep thinking, maybe someone else will be able to pull it up. Bits of it remind me of Lace but there's no half-sibling, just an illegitimate child. (You might like that one too, though.)
Lace looks pretty good! But no, it's not the one I was trying to remember. Thank you for the suggestion!
Tricia wrote: "Lace looks pretty good! But no, it's not the one I was trying to remember. Thank you for the suggestion!"It has almost all the same components as your missing book, just in a different mix: fashion, France, New York City, boarding school, unintended pregnancy, country estates (France and England), successful women, etc. I think you'd like it!
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That's the one! Thank you, Kris! I completely forgot about the third sister; I guess I didn't really like her. I can't wait to read other books by this author, now that I have her name. Thank you again!
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What's the Name of That Book???
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The story starts with the mother and father. He is married, but carries on with the mother and she gets pregnant. She leaves England and goes to raise her daughter in Ireland.
Then the mother dies so the 16-year-old daughter comes to live with her father and her half-sister. I believe the father's wife has died. The illegitimate daughter moves into the country estate of her father and attends the same boarding school with her half-sister. While she is there, some boys place a bet on her to see who can sleep with her first and at a dance, she is drugged or made drunk, while a couple of the boys have their way with her. At this dance she has worn a dress of her own design, which I think was compared to some sort of medieval or Gothic design--maybe the dress worn in Edmund Blair Leighton's The Accolade.
She pursues studies in fashion design, and the school for this is in Paris. Later on she moves to New York and I think designs something that winds up making a big profit for her father's department store in England.
The book also follows the story of the legitimate half-sister, who I think is married to either a Japanese or a black man, but I don't remember as much of her story. I think she stays on in England running her father's company, and there's some fuss over an uncle who owns shares.