SYNOPSIS: "The story begins in Paris of the 1920s where Maggy Lunel comes to seek her fortune. Maggy is an artists' model and is quickly swept into an affair with Mistral. Only years later when he meets Teddy Lunel, Maggy's daughter, doesn't the obsessed mistral discover his greatest love. Teddy is the top photographic model of the 1950s and Mistral's next love. Their daughter is brought up to inherit the Lunel agency, the most powerful fashion agency of the time. When an ugly secret of Mistral's past is revealed, only his daughter challenges Mistral."

Mistral's Daughter

Literature & Fiction

Judith Krantz

Women's Fiction

Bantan Books

2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by Alison FraserFor the first time Judith Krantz has chosen to tell a story rooted in the shattering emotions of a mother-daughter relationship gone desperately wrong. The story unfolds on a classic Krantz background, a magic carpet of gorgeous entertainment and sumptuous events. Yet, at its core, The Jewels of Tessa Kent is an engrossing, deeply moving, and ultimately inspiring tale of two women bound by blood yet torn apart by their deepest emotions.Tessa Kent, an exquisite and precocious fourteen, gives birth to an illegitimate daughter. Her parents, devout Catholics, raise the infant, Maggie, as their own child. At sixteen Tessa is discovered by Hollywood; by nineteen she's an international movie star. Maggie lives for her glorious "sister's" infrequent whirlwind visits. Maggie is a captivating, independent eighteen when she accidentally learns the truth. Mortally wounded, she breaks all ties with Tessa and starts to work at the famed Manhattan auction house of Scott & Scott.Five years later, a life-altering crisis makes Tessa passionately determined to end this estrangement. An auction is the only way she can find to reach her daughter, an auction of the immensely valuable collection of famed jewels that represent all the love lavished on her by her late husband. Tessa promises Scott & Scott the auction on the condition that Maggie and she work closely together on the sale. For Tessa, her entire future now hangs on the hope of an almost impossible reconciliation.The Jewels of Tessa Kent deals with the fascinating workings of an auction house; it's a revealing look at the inside of Hollywood stardom; but more than anything else, it's a story of feelings and family, of loss, mistakes, joy and redemption.

The Jewels of Tessa Kent

Genre Fiction

Random House Audio |

She was born Princess Marguerite Alexandrovna Valensky. But everyone called her Daisy. She was a blonde beauty living in a world of aristocrats and countless wealthy. Her father was a prince, a Russian nobleman. Her mother was an American movie goddess. Men desired her. Women envied her. Daisy's life was a fairy tale filled with parties and balls, priceless jewels, money and love. Then, suddenly, the fairy tale ended. And Princess Daisy had to start again, with nothing--except the secret she guarded from the day she was born. From the Paperback edition.

Princess Daisy

Crown

Princess Daisy Ltd Ed

A story of love, fame, and destiny centers on larger-than-life painter Julien Mistral and the magnificent Lunel women--Maggy, Teddy, and Fauve--fatally and forever bound to him

Crown, Publishers

I'll Take Manhattan

Maxi Amberville, twenty-nine and divorced three times, decides to take over her late father's fashion magazine, in order to save it from her greedy and unscrupulous uncle

Romance

Contemporary

Crown Publishers, Inc.

A story of love, fame, and destiny centers on the  larger-than-life painter, Julien Mistral, and the magnificent Lunel  women--Maggy, Teddy, and Fauve--fatally and forever bound to him. Read  by Adrienne Barbeau. Book available.

Random House Value Publishing

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

Corgi Childrens

Bantam/Doubleday/Dell

Maxi Amberville, twenty-nine and divorced three times, decides to take over her late father's fashion magazine, in order to save it from her greedy and unscrupulous uncle

I'LL TAKE MANHATTAN

BANTAM BOOKS

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Mistral's Daughter

The Jewels of Tessa Kent

Princess Daisy

Princess Daisy Ltd Ed

Mistral's Daughter

I'll Take Manhattan

Mistral's Daughter

Mistral's Daughter

Princess Daisy

I'LL TAKE MANHATTAN