The Chanel Sisters by Judithe Little

Two orphaned sisters, one legendary rise to fashion.

Good Condition – Light shelf wear with minor edge and corner wear, and a small crease to the lower front cover corner.

Abandoned in a French convent orphanage, sisters Antoinette and Gabrielle Chanel grow up believing they are destined for something more than the quiet lives the nuns have mapped out for them. Their only escape is a secret stash of romance novels and magazine clippings hidden beneath the floorboards. When they finally leave the convent, the sisters set out together with fierce determination, working their way from the cafés of Moulins and the performance halls of Vichy to a small hat shop on the rue Cambon in Paris — the humble beginning of what will become a fashion empire. But as the world around them changes and the First World War upends everything they've built, Antoinette and Gabrielle must each find the courage to carve out a place of her own, even if it means growing apart. A richly researched, moving novel of sisterhood, ambition and reinvention, telling the little-known story behind the woman the world would come to know as Coco Chanel.