Gilt by Jamie Brenner (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Gilt by Jamie Brenner "A luxurious and richly compelling new novel from the acclaimed author of Blush, about a famous family jewelry dynasty and the hidden past that could topple it all"-- FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A luxurious and richly compelling new novel from the bestselling author of Blush, about a famous family jewelry dynasty and the hidden past that could topple it all.One perfect diamond is all it takes to divide a family. Could one summer be enough to fix it?The Pavlin family built an empire on love. As the first jewelers to sell diamond engagement rings, they started a tradition that has defined the industry ever since. But when an ill-fated publicity stunt pits the three Pavlin sisters against one another for a famous family jewel, their bond is broken. No ordinary diamond ring, the Electric Rose splinters the sisters, leaving one unlucky in love, one escaping to the shores of Cape Cod, and the other, ultimately, dead.Now, more than a decade later, the only Pavlin granddaughter, Gemma Maybrook, is still reconciling the reality of her mothers death. Left orphaned and cast out by her family after the tragic accident, Gemma is ready to reclaim what should have been hers- the Electric Rose. And, as a budding jewelry designer in her own right, Gemma isnt just planning on recovering her mothers lost memento, shes coming back for everything.From Manhattans tony Fifth Avenue to the vibrant sands of Provincetown, Gilt follows the Pavlin women as they are forced to confront the mistakes of the past if they have any hope of finding love and happiness of their own. Author Biography Jamie Brenner is the author of six novels, including Blush and The Forever Summer. She grew up in suburban Philadelphia on a steady diet of Jackie Collins and Judith Krantz novels, and later moved to New York City to live like the heroines of her favourite books. Jamie now divides her time between Philadelphia and Provincetown. Review One of:New York Posts Required Reading PicksGMA.coms 15 New Books to Add to Your Reading List for June Katie Couric Medias Best Beach Reads for Summer 2022Readers Digests 21 Best Beach Reads for the Perfect Escape LifeSavvys Best Beach Reads"Somehow Jamie Brenner launches a new, captivating beach read every single summer centered on a different location." —GMA.com "A light yet juicy family drama...If you love gossip and diamonds, or are a big womens fiction reader, best-selling author Jamie Brenners latest is the perfect poolside read for you." —Readers Digest "Brenner shines in this tale about the women behind a Manhattan jewelry empire....Brenner shows great skill at describing fine jewelry and the workings of the industry, and makes all of her characters engaging. This beach read sparkles like a two-carat diamond." —Publishers Weekly "A story of family, healing, and the power of a really great accessory." —Kirkus Reviews "I dont know how she does it. Jamie Brenner cranks out a new book every summer, each one more engrossing than the last." —Zibby Owens, Katie Couric Media "I completely lost myself in Brenners blissful, heartfelt novel, centered around a family curse and a luscious pink diamond. A joyous story about shifting family dynamics, self-discovery and the power of forgiveness. The perfect summer read." —Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnolia Palace"One womans quest to find her way in the world and reclaim her rightful place in the family—and famed jewelry company—that left her behind sets the stage for Jamie Brenners latest, delectable read. Family drama, summer love, and one fabulous piece of jewelry combine to create a delicious page-turner that I positively could not put down. Brenners perfect pacing and prose shine as brightly as the diamond at her novels center—and cement her status as a standout voice in fiction. I am a huge Jamie Brenner fan, and Gilt is her best novel yet." –Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Veil"A summer sparkler about diamonds, revenge, family heirlooms, but—at its heart—the one thing we all desire most: Love. Gilt is a gem." —Viola Shipman, USA Today bestselling author of The Edge of Summer"Gilt is a dazzling page-turner. Family intrigue, sparkling gems, long-buried secrets, juicy twists and turns…what more could you ask for in a novel? Jamie Brenner is my go-to author for my beach bag!" –Elyssa Friedland, author of Last Summer at the Golden Hotel Review Quote One of: New York Post s Required Reading Picks GMA.coms 15 New Books to Add to Your Reading List for June Katie Couric Media s Best Beach Reads for Summer 2022 Readers Digest s 21 Best Beach Reads for the Perfect Escape LifeSavvy s Best Beach Reads "Somehow Jamie Brenner launches a new, captivating beach read every single summer centered on a different location." --GMA.com "A light yet juicy family drama...If you love gossip and diamonds, or are a big womens fiction reader, best-selling author Jamie Brenners latest is the perfect poolside read for you." -- Readers Digest "Brenner shines in this tale about the women behind a Manhattan jewelry empire....Brenner shows great skill at describing fine jewelry and the workings of the industry, and makes all of her characters engaging. This beach read sparkles like a two-carat diamond." -- Publishers Weekly "A story of family, healing, and the power of a really great accessory." -- Kirkus Reviews "I dont know how she does it. Jamie Brenner cranks out a new book every summer, each one more engrossing than the last." --Zibby Owens, Katie Couric Media "I completely lost myself in Brenners blissful, heartfelt novel, centered around a family curse and a luscious pink diamond. A joyous story about shifting family dynamics, self-discovery and the power of forgiveness. The perfect summer read." --Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnolia Palace "One womans quest to find her way in the world and reclaim her rightful place in the family--and famed jewelry company--that left her behind sets the stage for Jamie Brenners latest, delectable read. Family drama, summer love, and one fabulous piece of jewelry combine to create a delicious page-turner that I positively could not put down. Brenners perfect pacing and prose shine as brightly as the diamond at her novels center--and cement her status as a standout voice in fiction. I am a huge Jamie Brenner fan, and Gilt is her best novel yet." -Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Veil "A summer sparkler about diamonds, revenge, family heirlooms, but--at its heart--the one thing we all desire most: Love. Gilt is a gem." --Viola Shipman, USA Today bestselling author of The Edge of Summer " Gilt is a dazzling page-turner. Family intrigue, sparkling gems, long-buried secrets, juicy twists and turns...what more could you ask for in a novel? Jamie Brenner is my go-to author for my beach bag!" -Elyssa Friedland, author of Last Summer at the Golden Hotel Excerpt from Book 1 New York City, 2004 She reached for her mothers hand, excited and just a little bit afraid. The sun was beginning to set on Fifth Avenue, and cars were at a standstill. Reporters crowded the sidewalk and onlookers pressed against metal security barriers. "Over here, over here," photographers called out, and her parents stopped for a moment, her mother leaning down to whisper to her, Smile for the camera. "Paulina, show us the ring," someone called out, and her mother flashed her left hand. A woman stepped forward holding a copy of a magazine and asked for an autograph. It seemed to take forever to reach the jewelry store on the corner of Fifty-Third Street, a seven-story limestone and granite building her grandfather called a "monument to love." The entranceway was engraved with her family name. Tonight, display windows were filled with black-and-white photographs of legendary couples: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio, Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier. And in front of each photo, a Pavlin & Co diamond engagement ring, just waiting to be bought by a customer with a love story of their own. It was the tenth anniversary of Pavlin & Cos most famous diamond of all, a thirty-carat pink stone called the Electric Rose. Her grandfather Alan gifted the treasure to the first of his three daughters to get engaged: her mother. That afternoon, her mother had let her try it on. It was so beautiful she couldnt take her eyes off it, the color of a pale rose petal but also clear like a drop of water. Gemma had to clamp her small fingers tightly together to keep the ring from tilting over. "One day it will be yours," her mother said. The thing was, while everyone in the family loved talking about the ring, no one seemed to ever want to talk about her parents actual engagement. Or wedding. Or anything about her parents at all. Gemma was too afraid to press with questions. Sometimes she worried things were too perfect. That it could somehow all disappear. Gemma and her mother spent all day getting ready for the party. A stylist visited their apartment, piling her mothers blond hair into an updo and blow-drying Gemmas until it hung down her back like a golden sheet. Both of their gowns were white and embroidered with butterflies, each delicate wing hand-sewn by another visitor to the apartment earlier that week, a man with a white ponytail and dark glasses and an accent, who her mother called "Mr. Lagerfeld." "Were twins tonight," her mother said with a wink. "No one will be able to tell us apart." When the car arrived to whisk them down Fifth Avenue, her father looked at them both and said, "You two are more beautiful than any diamond in the world." Gemmas parents guided her inside Pavlin & Co, the vast sales floor transformed into a wonderland of sparkling diamonds everywhere you looked: in glass display cases, on the hands of the glamorous guests, and in the framed photos on the walls. The photos were advertisements from the long history of Pavlin & Co, starting back in 1947 with a black-and-white picture-now recognized all over the world-of a man on one knee in the snow, slipping a diamond solitaire ring on the finger of a willowy brunette in a ball gown. Above them, in elegant script, the sentence A Diamond Says Love. With those four simple words, her great-grandfather had created the idea of the diamond engagement ring. Her mother told her the story over and over again, the way other little girls were told fairy tales. "There was a time when people didnt buy diamond engagement rings," her mother said, "not until our family made them important." Gemmas eyes skipped forward eagerly, alighting on her favorite series of ads, the ones featuring her mother. Shed modeled for the 1994 ads wearing furs and her own pink diamond. Whenever Gemma looked at the photographs of her mother with her chin resting in her palm, the spectacular gem flashing on her finger, her big blue-green eyes staring directly into the camera, they didnt make her long to get engaged so much as they made her long to be Paulina. She was sure lots of women in the 1990s felt the same way. Buying a Pavlin diamond wasnt just buying a piece of jewelry-it was buying the promise of love. They passed the orchestra playing near the gilded elevators, and her grandmother rushed toward them. Constance, with her eternally blond bouffant hair and head-to-toe designer outfits, seemed like a queen to her. "Youre late," Constance said. "Come along, everyones waiting for you." The rest of the family was assembled on the podium: Alan, looking distinguished in his tuxedo, and her mothers two older sisters, Aunt Elodie and Aunt Celeste. Like her grandmother, her aunts seemed regal and somewhat unknowable. Aunt Elodie was Alans right hand at Pavlin & Co, while Aunt Celeste lived far away at a beach. Gemma wished she was closer with her mothers sisters. Maybe that would help fix the nagging sense that something was wrong. She was especially uncomfortable around Elodie. There was just something about the way her aunt looked at her. Uniformed guards encircled the podium as her grandfather stepped toward the microphone. On either side of him, glass cases displayed glittering diamond rings in every shape and color, yellow and white and even a rare blue stone set in platinum. Of course, none of them compared to the ring on her mothers finger. "Gemma," Aunt Elodie said in a loud whisper, placing a hand on her shoulder. "Dont you find it interesting that with all this security, a thief can still hide in plain sight?" What? "Oh, give it a rest, Elodie," her mother said. "Youd like that, wouldnt you?" Confused, Gemma looked between her mother and her aunt. Her stomach tensed, and that feeling came over her again-the sense of something terribly wrong. "Gemma, go over there and stand with Grandma," her mother said. "Why?" She didnt want to leave her side. "Please just do it," her mother said, a rare flash of annoyance in her voice. Biting her lip, she dutifully walked to the other end of the podium. What just happened? She blinked back tears, then told herself she had no reason to be upset. Looking out at the crowd, she knew she was lucky to be exactly where she was in that moment. Everyone wanted to be a Pavlin, to have beautiful things and be surrounded by love. So what if her aunt Elodie and her mother didnt get along? It wasnt the end of the world. But something deep down told her that it could be. 2 New York City, Fifteen Years Later Gemma was the only student at graduation without some kind of family. Shed considered not even attending, but shed been looking forward to the awards ceremony for a long time. And so, wearing her blue cap and gown, she took her aisle seat in the third row. The auditorium was warm, teetering on the brink of overheating. Air-conditioning vents wheezed loudly, as if they hadnt been intended for a room filled to capacity. She looked across the aisle at her classmate; Mae Yang. Did you bring it? she mouthed. Mae interned at New York magazine, and Gemma needed to borrow a press pass-the only way she was going to sneak into the Pavlin & Co centennial celebration tomorrow night. A party she hadnt been invited to. The dean took to the stage. "Welcome, graduates, friends, and family . . ." She slumped back in her seat, urging herself to stay in the moment-no matter how imperfect. Directly behind her, her best friend-and former boyfriend-Sanjay squeezed her shoulder. He leaned forward. "Thanks again for the extra tickets," he said. "No problem," she said. It was the least she could do for him. Shed give anything to have his trust again. Gemma opened her compact to use her pressed powder. Her long hair, the color of white corn, was pulled back in a low ponytail. She always looked pale and tired during finals week, and this time was no exception. Except this time, her eyes-a startling deep teal color-were bright with something new. The spark was like a pang of hunger just as dinner was being pulled from the oven-so close to satisfaction, but not quite there. It was standing on a diving board, looking down from a great height. It was the final toll bridge on the long drive to a beach. Anticipation, she was learning, was most painful when you were close to the finish line. The dean announced the beginning of the awards ceremony. Since the first day of her freshman year Gemma had dreamed of earning first prize in jewelry design; the NYSD Senior Award winners were profiled in The New York Times , and it was a distinction that awarded visibility to young artists and artisans at a time when they needed it the most, launching them into the real world. For Gemma, it would have the added value of helping her reclaim what had been taken from her. Her project was a jewelry collection she called Old New York. Gemma got the idea from visiting Sanjay at his job working the front desk of a historic hotel called the Casterbridge. The place captured her Details ISBN0593087828 Author Jamie Brenner Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 0593087828 ISBN-13 9780593087824 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2022-06-21 Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2022-06-21 UK Release Date 2022-06-21 Pages 384 Illustrator Gladys Jose Edited by Hans Walter Gabler Gabler Birth 1927 Death 1855 Affiliation Clark University Position journalist Qualifications PsyD Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc Place of Publication New York, NY DEWEY 813.6 Audience General NZ Release Date 2022-07-04 AU Release Date 2022-07-04 Imprint Penguin Putnam Inc We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:135451078;

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