Mistress Of The Ritz A Novel 9780399182266 Melanie Benjamin

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Titel: Mistress Of The Ritz A Novel
Auteur: Melanie Benjamin
ISBN: 9780399182266
Conditie: Beetje gebruikt

A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War IIwhile playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hôtel Ritz in Parisfrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue.

A compelling portrait of a marriage and a nation at war from within.Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network

Nothing bad can happen at the Ritz; inside its gilded walls every woman looks beautiful, every man appears witty. Favored guests like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Coco Chanel, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor walk through its famous doors to be welcomed and pampered by Blanche Auzello and her husband, Claude, the hotels director. The Auzellos are the mistress and master of the Ritz, allowing the glamour and glitz to take their minds off their troubled marriage, and off the secrets that they keep from their guestsand each other.

Until June 1940, when the German army sweeps into Paris, setting up headquarters at the Ritz. Suddenly, with the likes of Hermann Goëring moving into suites once occupied by royalty, Blanche and Claude must navigate a terrifying new reality. One that entails even more secrets and lies. One that may destroy the tempestuous marriage between this beautiful, reckless American and her very proper Frenchman. For in order to surviveand strike a blow against their Nazi guestsBlanche and Claude must spin a web of deceit that ensnares everything and everyone they cherish.

But one secret is shared between Blanche and Claude alonethe secret that, in the end, threatens to imperil both of their lives, and to bring down the legendary Ritz itself.

Based on true events, Mistress of the Ritz is a taut tale of suspense wrapped up in a love story for the ages, the inspiring story of a woman and a man who discover the best in each other amid the turbulence of war.

Praise for Mistress of the Ritz

No one writes of the complexities of womens lives and loves like Melanie Benjamin. In Mistress of the Ritz, Benjamin brings wartime Paris brilliantly to life. . . . Intense, illuminating, and ultimately inspiring!Elizabeth Letts, New York Times bestselling author of Finding Dorothy

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