The Girl in White Gloves by Kerri Maher

Welcome to the inner world of Grace Kelly. She is not the Grace Kelly you see on the screen or hear about in the society pages and Hollywood gossip columns nor is she the princess we believed lived in a faraway castle beloved by all. This is more about the real woman, not the myth. A woman who needed to be loved for who she was, respected for her craft and taken seriously not just paraded around as a national icon. The story is told flipping back and forth between her youth and time in Hollywood and in the later years of her life in Monaco. The book does become a blur as there are so many famous names and it covers so much of her life that at times I felt like I needed a cast of characters to keep it straight. She was larger than life and what we are left with is that she, like so many other celebrities, did not always lead a fairytale life. If you enjoy the numerous historical fiction biographies featuring those idolized women as real women then you will enjoy learning more about the real Grace Kelly.