Wonderful!

I would expect nothing less from Gill Paul but this truly is something wonderful. It's as if she knew Maria Callas and Jackie Kennedy and has taken the hand of these women and imagined what it must have been like to be them, to have their privilege and chances in life but still have the light of the worlds media in their eyes. When they wanted love and affection, they were at their most vulnerable and this novel shows you how these women dealt with their lot in life.

It's a gift to be able to bring two such iconic women to life and make it feel authentic,as if Gill has taken their diaries with their innermost thoughts and written them down. These two women are fascinating and enigmatic in their own right but to see their love affairs, how Maria came to sing, how she fell for Onassis, how Jackie came to love Onassis after JFK...oh what a tangled web we weave!

We might think we know the story but Gill has taken that and mixed it with magic and exquisite research of her own.

Recommended!