La reina nº 5

by Pamela Binnings Ewen

LA VIDA SECRETA DE LA DISEÑADORA MÁS ICÓNICA DEL SIGLO XX

Inescrutable, elegante, sensual y un poco impertinente. Así es Chanel Nº5, un perfume revolucionario y cautivador, un aroma secreto, instintivo y tan misterioso como la mujer que le dio nombre.

Coco se perfuma detrás de las orejas y en el cuello. Se pone las medias de seda, recoge la prenda que está sobre la cama y se viste. Es uno de sus atuendos favoritos: un elegante vestido negro de manga larga que complementa con varios collares de perlas. Se mira al espejo, da un paso atrás y sonríe. Mademoiselle Chanel está lista para desafiar el mundo.

Pese al abandono de su padre, la ruptura con su gran amor y la traición de su socio, Wertheimer, que le arrebató la fórmula de su inmortal perfume, ella nunca se ha dado por vencida. Coco Chanel ha pasado de bailarina en un café-chantant a construir un reino y ha creado un nuevo modelo de mujer muy parecida a ella: libre, independiente y segura de sí misma.

En un mundo en el que el poder está en manos de los hombres y con la esvástica ondeando sobre la Torre Eiffel, la reina de París se defenderá con uñas y dientes. Coco Chanel cruzará la línea de fuego como siempre lo ha hecho… sola, y a cualquier precio.

UNA HISTORIA INSPIRADA EN HECHOS REALES

AMBIENTADA EN EL PARÍS OCUPADO Y LLENO DE GLAMUR

Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, France, Historical, Fashion, World War II, Book Club

439 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 7, 2020

About the author

After practicing law for many in Houston, Texas, Pamela Binnings Ewen turned to writing. She lives in Mandeville, Louisiana near New Orleans. She is the author of The Moon in the Mango Tree, and five other books. Based on a true story, The Moon in the Mango tree was awarded the 2012 Eudora Welty Memorial Award by the National League of American Pen Women.

Pamela's newest novel, The Queen of Paris, will be released April 7, 2020 by Blackstone Publications. This electrifying story, based on the real life of Coco Chanel during WWII as the Nazi's occupied Paris, reveals the underside of the celebrated icon, as has never before been fully told. The Queen of Paris is available for Pre-order now.

Pamela's other novels are Dancing on Glass (a Single Titles Reviewer's Choice award), Chasing the Wind (a Top Pick for RT Reviewers), An Accidental Life, and Secret of the Shroud. She also wrote the non-fiction best-seller Faith on Trial, now in second edition.

Pamela has served on the board of directors of Inprint (Houston, Texas), The Tennessee Williams Festival (New Orleans, Louisiana) and on the advisory board of the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society (New Orleans). She is President of the Northshore Literary Society located in St. Tammany Paris, Louisiana. In 2009 Pamela received the President’s Arts Award from the Cultural Commission of St. Tammany Parish as Literary Artist of the Year.