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The Bridesmaid’s Daughter audiobook
- By: Nyna Giles
- Narrator: Nyna Giles
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Women
- Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: March 27, 2018
- Language: English
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The Bridesmaid’s Daughter Audiobook Summary
“A fascinating true story.” — Good Housekeeping
A daughter’s moving search to understand her mother, Carolyn Scott–once a bridesmaid to Princess Grace and one of the first Ford models–who later in life spent years living in a homeless shelter.
Nyna Giles was picking up groceries at the supermarket one day when she looked down and saw the headline on the cover of a tabloid: “Former Bridesmaid of Princess Grace Lives in Homeless Shelter.” Nyna was stunned, shocked to see her family’s private ordeal made so public–the woman mentioned on that cover, Carolyn Scott Reybold, was her mother.
Nyna’s childhood had been spent in doctor’s offices. Too ill, she was told, to go to school like other children, she spent nearly every waking moment at her mother’s side at their isolated Long Island estate or on trips into the city to see the ballet. The doctors couldn’t tell her what was wrong, but as Nyna grew up, her mother, who’d always seemed fragile, became more and more distant. Now Nyna was forced to confront an agonizing realization: she barely knew the woman on the magazine in front of her.
She knew that her mother had been a model after arriving in New York in 1947, living at the Barbizon Hotel, where she’d met the young Grace Kelly and that the two had become fast friends. Nyna had seen the photos of Carolyn at Grace’s wedding, wearing the yellow bridesmaid gown that had hung in her closet for years. But how had the seemingly confident, glamorous woman in those pictures become the mother she knew growing up–the mother who was now living in a shelter?
In this powerful memoir of friendship and motherhood, Nyna Giles uncovers her mother’s past to answer the questions she never knew to ask.
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The Bridesmaid’s Daughter Audiobook Narrator
Nyna Giles is the narrator of The Bridesmaid’s Daughter audiobook that was written by Nyna Giles
NYNA GILES is the youngest daughter of Carolyn Scott Reybold, a model best known as one of Grace Kelly’s bridesmaids. Having had a successful, 20-year career in advertising, digital marketing and sales, Nyna now serves as Chief Operating Officer for Giles Communications, a leading public relations company. She is also a tireless advocate for the mentally ill, having served as a vice president on the board of The Association for Mentally Ill Children of Westchester, Inc. for 10 years. She lives in Westchester County, New York with her husband.
About the Author(s) of The Bridesmaid’s Daughter
Nyna Giles is the author of The Bridesmaid’s Daughter
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The Bridesmaid’s Daughter Full Details
| Narrator | Nyna Giles |
| Length | 7 hours 3 minutes |
| Author | Nyna Giles |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | March 27, 2018 |
| ISBN | 9781427295767 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Bridesmaid’s Daughter is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Women
Additional info
The publisher of the The Bridesmaid’s Daughter is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781427295767.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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