Our next book club read, scheduled for Monday, September 12 at 1:00 p.m. is Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel’s Secret War by Hal Vaughan. This book is about Coco Chanel, the high priestess of couture, who created the look of the chic modern woman. Her simple and elegant designs freed women from their corsets and inspired them to crop their hair. By the 1920s, Chanel employed more than two thousand people in her workrooms and had amassed a personal fortune. But at the start of the Second World War, Chanel closed down her couture house and went to live quietly at the Ritz, moving to Switzerland after the war. For more than half a century, Chanel’s life from 1941 to 1954 has been shrouded in rumor. Neither Chanel nor her biographers have told the full story, until now. Join us on the 12th to learn about the “full Coco story.”
If you are not a member of this group, you are missing out on the opportunity for thought-provoking discussions on books from a variety of genres; please feel free to join us and check us out!