**The Paris Wife meets PBS's Victoria in this enthralling novel of
the life and loves of one of history's most remarkable women: Winston
Churchill's scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome.
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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 Jennie--reared in the luxury of Gilded Age
Newport and the Paris of the Second Empire--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, she'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 husband's
rise in Parliament and her young son's difficult passage through
boyhood. But as the family's influence soars, scandals explode and
tragedy befalls the Churchills. Jennie is inescapably drawn to the
brilliant and seductive Count Charles Kinsky--diplomat, skilled
horse-racer, deeply passionate lover. Their affair only intensifies as
Randolph Churchill's sanity frays, and Jennie--a woman whose every move
on the public stage is judged--must walk a tightrope between duty and
desire. Forced to decide where her heart truly belongs, Jennie risks
everything--even her son--and disrupts lives, including her own, on both
sides of the Atlantic.
Breathing new life into Jennie's legacy and the glittering world over
which she reigned, That Churchill Woman paints a portrait of the
difficult--and sometimes impossible--balance among love, freedom, and
obligation, while capturing the spirit of an unforgettable woman, one
who altered the course of history.
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Praise for** That Churchill Woman
"The perfect confection of a novel . . . We'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, it's always Jennie who shines and takes the center
stage she was born to."--Melanie Benjamin, New York Times
bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth
Avenue
