Elegance and Innocence: 2-Book Collection

Elegance and Innocence: 2-Book Collection
Kathleen Tessaro

‘Elegance is a fantastic book . . . funny, moving, tongue in cheek’ Cat DeeleyELEGANCELouise Canova is at a crossroads in her life. Browsing in a second-hand bookshop, she stumbles across a faded grey volume. Written by a formidable French fashion expert, Elegance is an encyclopedia of style. Within the book's pages Louise discovers a courage she never thought possible. For true elegance cannot be attained until she is comfortable in her own skin: only then might love flourish.INNOCENCEIt's 1987 and Evie is leaving home for the first time, headed for London to study acting. Along with her fellow students and roommates, Imogene (a born again Laura Ashley poster child and frustrated virgin) and Robbie (native New Yorker, budding bohemian, and very much not a virgin), Evie's determined to make her mark both on stage and off. But then life and love intervene. And everything changes.

KATHLEEN TESSARO

ELEGANCE and INNOCENCE

Copyright (#ulink_9b0fd661-11da-58de-8cbd-df673d438264)

This novel is entirely a work of fiction.

The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2003, 2005

Copyright © Kathleen Tessaro 2003, 2005

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Lines from ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, taken from Collected Poems 1909–1962 by T.S. Eliot, reproduced by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd.

Extracts from Elegance by Genevieve Antoine Dariaux, published by Frederick Muller, reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.

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Contents

Cover (#u7f681418-6140-55ad-b39c-7a5d79bc9a44)

Title Page (#u6154b102-2366-517e-b552-1bc28da2a916)

Copyright (#u4df03399-910a-5b58-a213-d8c3588f648a)

Elegance (#u7f681418-6140-55ad-b39c-7a5d79bc9a44)

Innocence (#litres_trial_promo)

Keep Reading (#litres_trial_promo)

Also by the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

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KATHLEEN TESSARO

ELEGANCE

I’d like to thank my dear friends Maria and Gavin for their inspiration and encouragement, all the girls at the Tuesday Night Wimpole Street Writers Workshop for teaching me how it’s done, Jonny Geller, Lynne Drew, and the entire team at HarperCollins, William Morrow and Curtis Brown for their support and vision. I’d also like to thank the London office of Wellington Management and Stephen McDermott in particular, who saved my manuscript from the ether more than once.

Dedication (#ulink_c329d387-a806-511d-805d-d23b18227b84)

To my friend and mentor, Jill Robinson.

Contents

Cover (#u7f681418-6140-55ad-b39c-7a5d79bc9a44)

Title Page (#u6154b102-2366-517e-b552-1bc28da2a916)

Dedication (#ue13e4c19-34aa-550a-b4fe-aefb83362f4a)

Preface (#u292e2231-0e95-55e3-ac31-77be66c821d7)

What is Elegance? (#u5b36a8d1-2e8c-5fcc-9a4c-65f0107307f9)

Chapter 1 - A: Accessories (#uce0274fd-436a-554a-ab54-4c3230d73911)

Chapter 2 - B: Beauty (#u8fde96e4-c73b-5905-a495-bbf1bdf7a883)

Chapter 3 - C: Comfort (#u89949ed9-9db6-566e-bcd7-749d0ca0e9a8)

Chapter 4 - D: Daughters (#u5e7d009c-cbac-51a5-b064-6a0b04265887)

Chapter 5 - E: Expecting (#ub9afe5f4-74e3-5ea9-b975-51f919175185)

Chapter 6 - F: Fur (#ubb393c94-b1fa-5cbf-8404-5068318432f3)

Chapter 7 - G: Girl friends (#u2d71866e-8f64-5bcd-bfa0-2fb590a01630)

Chapter 8 - H: Husbands (#ufd445046-fb7f-57fe-b8a8-4e78d7af5a74)

Chapter 9 - I: Ideal Wardrobe (#u3d9920e6-f78b-5ade-a08f-5a77b94aaf7f)

Chapter 10 - J: Jewellery (#u014ba182-4f47-5768-90e1-dbbefb92ec79)