Two estranged sisters find that forgiveness never goes out of style when they inherit their mother’s vintage jackets, purses… and pearls of wisdom.
Estranged half-sisters Gabrielle Winslow and Lulu Quattro have only two things in common: mounds of debt and coils of unresolved enmity toward Bette Bradford, their controlling and imperious recently deceased mother.
Gabrielle, the firstborn, was raised in relative luxury on Manhattan’s rarefied Upper East Side. Now, at fifty-five, her life as a Broadway costume designer married to a heralded Broadway producer has exploded in divorce.
Lulu, who spent half her childhood under the tutelage of her working-class Brooklyn grandparents, is a grieving widow at forty-eight. With her two sons grown, her life feels reduced to her work at the Ditmas Park bakery owned by her late husband’s family.
The two sisters arrive for the reading of their mother’s will, expecting to divide a sizable inheritance, pay off their debts, and then again turn their backs on each other.
But to their shock, what they have been left is their mother’s secret walk-in closet jammed with high-end current and vintage designer clothes and accessories— most from Chanel.
Contemplating the scale of their mother’s self-indulgence, the sisters can’t help but wonder if Lauren Weisberger had it wrong: because it seems, in fact, that the devil wore Chanel. But as they being to explore their mother’s collection, meet and fall in love with her group of warm, wonderful friends, and magically find inspiring messages tucked away in her treasures — it seems as though their mother is advising Lulu and Gabrielle from the beyond — helping them rediscover themselves and restore their relationship with each other.
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“Narrators Mia Barron and Callie Beaulieu are a dynamic duo in their portrayals of estranged half sisters…Beaulieu narrates the Gabrielle chapters and demonstrates range when a rough New York accent quickly replaces a character’s upper-crust pronunciation in anger. Barron narrates the Lulu chapters and excels at portraying her colorful Brooklyn family, which includes her chirpy sister-in-law and her sometimes-admonishing, sometimes-calming mother-in-law.”
— AudioFile
"There is grace and redemption in this celebration of sisterhood.”
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Randy Susan Meyers is
the coauthor of the nonfiction book Couples with Children. Her short fiction
has been published in Perigee, Fog City Review, and Grub Street Free Press. Meyers spent
eight years as assistant director of Common Purpose, a batterer intervention
program, and was director for the Mission Hill Community
Centers, where she worked with at-risk youth. She currently lives and works in Boston,
Massachusetts.
M. J. Rose is the USA Today bestselling author of more than a dozen novels. Her novels have been named RT Books Reviews’ Best Historical Fiction and People magazine top picks. The televison series, Past Lives, was based on her novel The Reincarnationist. She is a founding member of International Thriller Writers and the founder of the first marketing company for authors, AuthorBuzz.com.
Mia Barron has worked at theaters in New York and around the country. Her film and television credits include The Guiding Light and the independent feature The F Word. She has won an AudioFile Earphones Award, and in 2003 she was awarded the Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award for her audiobook narration.
Callie Beaulieu, audiobook narrator, has been an actress for several decades. Classically trained, she is predominantly a theater actress, and her work has been seen around the country. She is a proud member of Actors Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA.