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The Grand Design audiobook
- By: Joy Callaway
- Narrator: Joy Callaway
- Category: Contemporary Women, Fiction
- Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Harper Muse
- Publish date: May 17, 2022
- Language: English
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The Grand Design Audiobook Summary
She has one last chance to prove she chose the right course for her life.
In 1908, young Dorothy Tuckerman chafes under the bland, beige traditions of her socialite circles. Only the aristocracy’s annual summer trips to The Greenbrier resort in West Virginia spark her imagination. In this naturally beautiful place, an unexpected romance with an Italian racecar driver gives Dorothy a taste of the passion and adventure she wants. But her family intervenes, sentencing Dorothy to the life she hopes to escape.
Thirty-eight years later, as World War II draws to a close, Dorothy has done everything a woman in the early twentieth century should not: she has divorced her husband–scandalous–and established America’s first interior design firm–shocking. Now, Dorothy returns to The Greenbrier with the assignment to restore it to something even greater than its original glory. With her beloved company’s future hanging in the balance and brimming with daring, unconventional ideas, Dorothy has one more chance to give her dreams wings or succumb to her what society tells her is her inescapable fate.
Based on the true story of famed designer Dorothy Draper, The Grand Design is a moving tale of one woman’s quest to transform the walls that hold her captive.
“Five Stars!” –Carleton Varney, president of Dorothy Draper & Company, Inc.
“As captivating and confident as the heroine at its center.” –Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Veil
“Full of luscious details of fashion and luxury!” –Kelly O’Connor McNees, author of The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott
“A dazzling, intimate portrait.” –Louise Claire Johnson, author of Behind the Red Door
Historical fiction at its finest!” –Elyssa Friedland, author of Last Summer at the Golden Hotel
- Historical novel centered around America’s first female interior designer
- Stand-alone novel
- Book length: 109,000 words
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The Grand Design Audiobook Narrator
Joy Callaway is the narrator of The Grand Design audiobook that was written by Joy Callaway
Joy Callaway is the author of The Grand Design, The Fifth Avenue Artists Society, and Secret Sisters. She holds a BA in journalism and public relations from Marshall University and an MMC from the University of South Carolina. She resides in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband, John, and her children, Alecia and John. Visit her online at joycallaway.com; Instagram: @joywcal; and Facebook: @JoyCallawayAuthor.
About the Author(s) of The Grand Design
Joy Callaway is the author of The Grand Design
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The Grand Design Full Details
| Narrator | Joy Callaway |
| Length | 10 hours 57 minutes |
| Author | Joy Callaway |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Harper Muse |
| Release date | May 17, 2022 |
| ISBN | 9781400234394 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Grand Design is Harper Muse. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Contemporary Women, Fiction
Additional info
The publisher of the The Grand Design is Harper Muse. The imprint is Harper Muse. It is supplied by Harper Muse. The ISBN-13 is 9781400234394.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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