That Churchill Woman: A Novel

That Churchill Woman: A Novel
- That Churchill Woman: A Novel Hardcover – January 29, 2019
The Paris Wife meets PBSâ€™s Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of historyâ€™s most remarkable women: Winston Churchillâ€™s scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome.

Wealthy, privileged, and fiercely independent New Yorker Jennie Jerome took Victorian England by storm when she landed on its shores. As Lady Randolph Churchill, she gave birth to a man who defined the twentieth century: her son Winston. But Jennieâ€”reared in the luxury of Gilded Age Newport and the Paris of the Second Empireâ€”lived an outrageously modern life all her own, filled with controversy, passion, tragedy, and triumph.

When the nineteen-year-old beauty agrees to marry the son of a duke she has known only three days, sheâ€™s instantly swept up in a whirlwind of British politics and the breathless social climbing of the Marlborough House Set, the reckless men who surround Bertie, Prince of Wales. Raised to think for herself and careless of English society rules, the new Lady Randolph Churchill quickly becomes a London sensation: adored by some, despised by others.

Artistically gifted and politically shrewd, she shapes her husbandâ€™s rise in Parliament and her young sonâ€™s difficult passage through boyhood. But as the familyâ€™s influence soars, scandals explode and tragedy befalls the Churchills. Jennie is inescapably drawn to the brilliant and seductive Count Charles Kinskyâ€”diplomat, skilled horse-racer, deeply passionate lover. Their affair only intensifies as Randolph Churchillâ€™s sanity frays, and Jennieâ€”a woman whose every move on the public stage is judgedâ€”must walk a tightrope between duty and desire. Forced to decide where her heart truly belongs, Jennie risks everythingâ€”even her sonâ€”and disrupts lives, including her own, on both sides of the Atlantic.

Breathing new life into Jennieâ€™s legacy and the glittering world over which she reigned, That Churchill Woman paints a portrait of the difficultâ€”and sometimes impossibleâ€”balance among love, freedom, and obligation, while capturing the spirit of an unforgettable woman, one who altered the course of history.

Praise for That Churchill Woman

â€œThe perfect confection of a novel . . . Weâ€™re introduced to Jennie in all of her passion and keen intelligence and beauty. While she is surrounded by a cast of late-Victorian celebrities, including Bertie, Prince of Wales, itâ€™s always Jennie who shines and takes the center stage she was born to.â€â€”Melanie Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Aviatorâ€™s Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue
Country USA
Brand BALLANTINE GROUP
Manufacturer Ballantine Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781524799564
ReleaseDate 2019-01-29
EANs 9781524799564

Country	USA
Brand	BALLANTINE GROUP
Manufacturer	Ballantine Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781524799564
ReleaseDate	2019-01-29
EANs	9781524799564

That Churchill Woman: A Novel

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