Caroline Blackwood tells us the tale of a very unhappy housewife. She writes letters in her head to imaginary friends lamenting her many woes and frailties. What has brought on this depression? Arnold left her and moved to Paris. Oh, yes, something else. He has left her with his fat, unhappy, emotionally disturbed daughter!

The Stepdaughter

BLACKWOOD, CAROLINE

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

The widowed and lonely Mrs. Blunt succumbs to the mysterious power of Corrigan, a gaunt, handsome Irishman in a wheelchair, a man of charm and erudition, and her estranged daughter, Nadine, looks into the matter

Corrigan

Humor & Satire

Looks at the nuclear protest camps at Greenham Common, discusses the British Women's Peace movement, and describes public reaction to the protesters

On the Perimeter

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Darling, You Shouldn't Have Gone to So Much Trouble

Haycraft, Anna

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

Great Granny Webster

Picador

This is an investigation into the last years of the Duchess of Windsor. Once the epitome of glamour, Wallis Warfield Simpson Windsor spent her last days alone and ill in her Paris chateau, guarded by her lawyer Maitre Suzanne Blum. This book tells of the author's quest for the Duchess and her encounters with Blum. Blackwood came to the shuttered house in the Bois de Boulogne in 1980, commisioned by the "Sunday Times" to write a piece to accompany a photo-session with the Duchess by Lord Snowdon. But the photographs were never taken. Instead, Maitre Blum became the subject of both photographs and interview and her passion for the Duchess aroused Blackwood's curiosity. Why was the Duchess's lawyer so keen to prevent anyone from seeing her, even her oldest friends? What was it about the Duchess that evoked such depth of feeling in her lawyer? In answering these questions, this book takes the reader behind the facade of the Windsor myth to give an account of the life - and death - of the Duchess.

The Last of the Duchess

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Knopf Publishing Group, The

In 1980, Lady Caroline Blackwood was commissioned by The Sunday Times to write an article on the aging Duchess of Windsor, who was said to be convalescing in her French mansion in the Bois de Boulogne. Yet what began as a curiosity was to become for Blackwood one of the most challenging experiences of her writing career, launching her into a battle of wits with the Duchess's formidable lawyer, Maître Suzanne Blum. Maître Blum refused to let Blackwood near the Duchess, spinning elaborate excuses as to why she was unavailable and threatening anyone who dared suggest that she was in anything other than the best of health. Still, while Blum's machinations restricted Blackwood's ability to publish a frank interview, it only served to pique her interest in the bizarre relationship between the infamous Duchess—a woman who once inspired a king to abdicate his crown—and her eccentric, domineering gatekeeper. Sixteen years later, Blackwood turned her experiences into this riveting and excoriating modern classic about the frailties of old age, the foibles of society, and the dual-edged nature of celebrity.

The Last of the Duchess: The Strange and Sinister Story of the Final Years of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

Humor & Entertainment

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

On the perimeter

Heinemann

Last of the Duchess

Random House Value Publishing

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