And They Called It Camelot by Stephanie Marie Thornton

I went to an exhibit once of just preserved outfits she wore and was photographed in for notable events in history and I felt quite humbled by the experience. She is everything glamour, class, and chic. 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. 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.īut all reigns must come to an end. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy knows no other choice. About the BookĪn intimate portrait of the life of Jackie O…įew of us can claim to be the authors of our fate. It feels like reading a memoir, but with the flair of a fiction book. I love the way Thornton takes stories about real people grounded in real events and uses her imagination to fill in the other pieces. So when I saw And They Called it Camelot: A Novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, I grabbed it right away. I’d read Stephanie Marie Thornton’s prior book American Princess which was a fictionalized narrative non-fiction (honestly not sure how to label this specific sub-genre!) about Alice Roosevelt, which I loved. I go through phases with historical fiction and right now I’m absolutely loving them.

And They Called It Camelot by Stephanie Marie Thornton