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  • Published: 10 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9780451490926
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $40.00

And They Called It Camelot

A Novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis



An intimate portrait of the life of Jackie O...

An intimate portrait of the life of Jackie O…
 
Few of us can claim to be the authors of our fate. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy knows no other choice. With the eyes of the world watching, Jackie uses her effortless charm and keen intelligence to carve a place for herself among the men of history and weave a fairy tale for the American people, embodying a senator’s wife, a devoted mother, a First Lady—a queen in her own right.
 
But all reigns must come to an end. Once JFK travels to Dallas and the clock ticks down those thousand days of magic in Camelot, Jackie is forced to pick up the ruined fragments of her life and forge herself into a new identity that is all her own, that of an American legend.

  • Published: 10 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9780451490926
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $40.00

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Praise for And They Called It Camelot

Praise for And They Called it Camelot

"And They Called It Camelot is the book club pick of the year. Stephanie Marie Thornton brings an American icon to life: Jackie the debutante, the First Lady, the survivor who at last becomes the heroine of her own story." --Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Huntress

"An extraordinary profile of the courage and grace of the indomitable Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, And They Called it Camelot is impeccably researched and richly drawn. Thornton celebrates the former First Lady's life in a sweeping account filled with poignant intimacy. Readers are instantly transported to Jackie's version of Camelot as they immerse themselves in the fascinating and tumultuous history of the times. An unputdownable, unforgettable read."--Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of Next Year in Havana

"Addictive, dishy, and emotionally haunting, this novel paints an intimate portrait of a tumultuous marriage that played out on the world's stage and ended in national tragedy. Loving and losing one of history's most charismatic American presidents marks Jaqueline Kennedy's life ever after, but oh, how she rises up from the ashes. Vivid, engrossing, and utterly unforgettable, And They Called It Camelot is Thornton's best work yet." --Stephanie Dray, New York Times bestselling coauthor of America's First Daughter

"Stephanie Thornton has compellingly and sympathetically humanized an American icon. Well researched and beautifully written, And They Called It Camelot is compulsively readable historical fiction!" --Laura Kamoie, New York Times bestselling coauthor of My Dear Hamilton