Color me mine draper8/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Where did her life go wrong, she essentially asks?Ĭallaway does a wonderful job balancing the history and design elements of this special place. Her ex-husband's new wife is one of the decorators who might steal the job from Dorothy, and her kids have flocked to the new wife. In the 1940s, after World War Two, Dorothy returns, now divorced from a doctor (neither the original beau or the race car driver) and is given the gigantic task of redesigning The Greenbrier after it served as a war hospital and high-end prison for foreign diplomats. Then a race car driver from Italy arrives, and everything changes. What a time period to have been part of!? I might've been born in the wrong century.ĭorothy and her pseudo-beau do not want to be married, but they love one another as friends. All the rich and famous, proper families summer at The Greenbrier, then known as White Sulphur Springs, and it's about coming out parties and politics. Set in two time periods, just before World War 1 and the late 1940s, we meet a young Dorothy who's been promised to the son of a wealthy family friend. I remembered much about the resort and Dorothy Draper, which was handled spectacularly, but I also learned immense more from this novel. So much of the detail must be precise, yet the story needs to have flair and drama in order to hook readers. Historical fiction can be tough to write. Thankfully, I received an early copy and am keen to share my unbiased opinions in this review. ![]() When I saw this book on NetGalley, I absolutely had to read it. From the décor of the hotel to the extravagant meals, underground bunker, elaborate grounds, and monumental history within its walls, I can't imagine a way to spend a better start to a new year. It is among the top trips in my life thus far, and the experience will always stay with me. 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.īased on the true story of famed designer Dorothy Draper, The Greenbrier Resort is a moving tale of one woman’s quest to transform the walls that hold her captive.Ī little over five years ago, I spent New Year's Eve with a group of friends at The Greenbrier Resort. Now, Dorothy returns to the Greenbrier with the assignment to restore it to something even greater than its original glory. 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. But her family intervenes, sentencing Dorothy to the life she hopes to escape. In this naturally beautiful place, an unexpected romance with an Italian racecar driver gives Dorothy a taste of the passion and adventure she wants. Only the aristocracy’s annual summer trips to the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia spark her imagination. In 1908, young Dorothy Tuckerman chafes under the bland, beige traditions of her socialite circles. She has one last chance to prove she chose the right course for her life. ![]()
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