{"title":"Daisy Goodwin","description":"DAISY GOODWIN, a Harkness scholar who attended Columbia University's film school after earning a degree in history at Cambridge University, is a leading television producer in the U.K. Her poetry anthologies, including 101 Poems That Could Save Your Life, have introduced many new readers to the pleasures of poetry, and she was Chair of the judging panel of the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction. She and her husband, an ABC TV executive, have two daughters and live in London. The American Heiress is her first novel.","products":[{"product_id":"diva-paperback","title":"Diva - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the richest men in the world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas was known simply as la divina: the divine one. With her glorious voice, instinctive flair for the dramatic and striking beauty, she was the toast of the grandest opera houses in the world. But her fame was hard won: raised in Nazi-occupied Greece by a mother who mercilessly exploited her golden voice, she learned early in life to protect herself from those who would use her for their own ends. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen she met the fabulously rich Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, for the first time in her life, she believed she'd found someone who saw the woman within the legendary soprano. She fell desperately in love. He introduced her to a life of unbelievable luxury, showering her with jewels and sojourns in the most fashionable international watering holes with celebrities like Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd then suddenly, it was over. The international press announced that Aristotle Onassis would marry the most famous woman in the world, former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, leaving Maria to pick up the pieces. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this remarkable novel, \u003ci\u003eDiva\u003c\/i\u003e, Daisy Goodwin brings to life a woman whose extraordinary talent, unremitting drive and natural chic made her a legend. But it was only in confronting the heartbreak of losing the man she loved that Maria Callas found her true voice and went on to triumph.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103665098975,"sku":"9781250833990","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/pkxuOPJhEU9781250833990.webp?v=1781097399"},{"product_id":"the-american-heiress-paperback","title":"The American Heiress - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Anyone suffering \u003ci\u003eDownton Abbey\u003c\/i\u003e withdrawal symptoms (who isn't?) will find an instant tonic in Daisy Goodwin's \u003ci\u003eThe American Heiress.\u003c\/i\u003e The story of Cora Cash, an American heiress in the 1890s who bags an English duke, this is a deliciously evocative first novel that lingers in the mind.\" \u003ci\u003e--Allison Pearson, New York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eI Don't Know How She Does It\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eI Think I Love You\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eBe careful what you wish for. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts', suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham, married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England. Nothing is quite as it seems, however: Ivo is withdrawn and secretive, and the English social scene is full of traps and betrayals. Money, Cora soon learns, cannot buy everything, as she must decide what is truly worth the price in her life and her marriage. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWitty, moving, and brilliantly entertaining, Cora's story marks the debut of a glorious storyteller who brings a fresh new spirit to the world of Edith Wharton and Henry James. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"For daughters of the new American billionaires of the 19th century, it was the ultimate deal: marriage to a cash-strapped British Aristocrat in return for a title and social status. But money didn't always buy them happiness.\" --Daisy Goodwin in \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe American Heiress \u003c\/i\u003ewas originally sold and distributed in the UK as \u003ci\u003eMy Last Duchess\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104266588383,"sku":"9780312658663","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/jxIZYUjZTG9780312658663.webp?v=1781104532"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/daisy-goodwin.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}