Dressing the Dearloves

Kelly Doust

2018年8月 · Bolinda · 旁述：Mel Hudson

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Failed fashion designer Sylvie Dearlove is coming home to England – broke, ashamed and in disgrace – only to be told her parents are finally selling their once-grand, now crumbling country house, Bledesford, the ancestral home of the Dearlove family for countless generations. Sylvie has spent her whole life trying to escape being a Dearlove, and the pressure of belonging to a family of such headstrong, charismatic and successful women. Beset by self-doubt, she starts helping her parents prepare Bledesford for sale, when she finds in a forgotten attic a thrilling cache of old steamer trunks and tea chests full of elaborate dresses and accessories acquired from across the globe by five generations of fashionable Dearlove women. Sifting through the past, she also stumbles across a secret which has been hidden – in plain sight – for decades, a secret that will change the way she thinks about herself, her family, and her future. Romantic, warm and glamorous, moving from Edwardian England to the London Blitz to present day London, Dressing the Dearloves is a story of the corrosiveness of family secrets, the insecurities that can sabotage our best efforts and the seductive power of dressing up.

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Since 2009, Kelly Doust has published five non-fiction books about craft and fashion: The Crafty Minx, The Crafty Kid, A Life in Frocks: A Memoir, Minxy Vintage, and The Crafty Minx at Home. She has a background in book publishing and publicity, and has worked in the UK, Hong Kong and Australia and freelanced for magazines such as Vogue, Australian Women’s Weekly and Sunday Life Magazine. She currently lives in Sydney, Australia with her husband and daughter.

Mel Hudson is a British actress, voiceover artist and comedian, one half of the double act Hudson and Pepperdine along with Vicki Pepperdine. The pair wrote and starred in BBC Radio 4's The Hudson and Pepperdine Show. Mel is perhaps best known for performing many roles in Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge, including Alan's French co-host Nina Vanier. Mel has also narrated a number of audiobooks, including Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time.