The grand design : a novel of Dorothy Draper

Author

Joy Callaway

Call Number

• FICTION CALL (CEN)

Publication Information

[Nashville, TN] : Harper Muse, [2022]

Physical Description

388 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

"1908: The Greenbrier has been Dorothy Tuckerman's escape for as long as she can recall--a summer resort nestled in West Virginia where American aristocracy can just be, a retreat surrounded by wilderness, unprotected by gates--a place completely unlike her home in Tuxedo Park, New York. This season, however, she's nineteen, and the summer comes riddled with expectations that threaten to trap her within another set of walls--including an unwelcome marriage proposal from a family friend. But when an Italian racecar driver, Enzo Rossi, appears at The Greenbrier with his uncle, a former financial minister of Italy, igniting suspicion and upending everyone's plans, Dorothy must come to terms with her definition of liberty, the price it may cost to be truly free, and a newly ignited passion to transform the very walls that once held her captive. Thirty-eight years later, Dorothy Draper returns to her beloved resort as the head of the first ever interior design firm, world famous and divorced from her high-profile physician husband. But The Greenbrier of 1946 is hardly the glamorous place she once knew. Transformed into a hospital during the war, the hotel is beaten, sterile, and in complete shambles. As Dorothy struggles to complete the most important project of her career, old secrets surface--secrets that threaten to snag the very fabric of the life she's built--and she must come face to face with the girl she once was, the woman she's become, and the resort that changed it all."--