Jackie and Maria, Gill Paul
Jackie and Maria, Gill Paul
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Jackie and Maria
A Novel of Jackie Kennedy & Maria Callas

Author: Gill Paul

Narrator: Lisa Flanagan

Unabridged: 12 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 08/18/2020

Categories: Fiction, Women, Political


Synopsis

From the #1 bestselling author of The Secret Wife comes a story of love, passion, and tragedy as the lives of Jackie Kennedy and Maria Callas are intertwined—and they become the ultimate rivals, in love with the same man.
The President's Wife; a Glamorous Superstar; the rivalry that shook the world...Jackie Kennedy was beautiful, sophisticated, and contemplating leaving her ambitious young senator husband. Life in the public eye with an overly ambitious--and unfaithful—man who could hardly be coaxed to return from a vacation after the birth of a stillborn child was breaking her spirit. So when she's offered a holiday on the luxurious yacht owned by billionaire Ari Onassis, she says yes...to a meeting that will ultimately change her life.Maria Callas is at the height of her operatic career and widely considered to be the finest soprano in the world. And then she's introduced to Aristotle Onassis, the world’s richest man and her fellow Greek. Stuck in a childless, sexless marriage, and with pressures on all sides from opera house managers and a hostile press, she finds her life being turned upside down by this hyper-intelligent and impeccably charming man...Little by little, Maria’s and Jackie’s lives began to overlap, and they come closer and closer until everything they know about the world changes on a dime.    

About Gill Paul

Gill Paul has written thirteen historical novels, many of them re-evaluating extraordinary 20th-century women whom she thinks have been marginalized or misjudged by historians. Her books have reached the top of the US, Canadian, and UK charts, and have been translated into twenty-three languages.Gill was born and raised in Scotland, apart from an eventful year at school in the US when she was ten. She worked as an editor in nonfiction publishing, then as a ghostwriter, before giving up the “day job” to write fiction full-time. She is also an events organizer for the Historical Writers Association.Gill loves wild swimming year-round, arranging parties, and traveling whenever and wherever she can.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Katie on October 01, 2020

4.5 stars This historical fiction book is a good representation of why I love the genre so much. While I had some prior knowledge of Aristotle Onassis and of course Jackie Kennedy, I was not familiar with opera singer Maria Callas. This book gave me the opportunity to learn a little about her and has......more

Goodreads review by Glenn on October 13, 2020

Sometimes historical figures are so compelling they rise above a workmanlike story and hackneyed prose. That's the case with Jackie And Maria, Gill Paul's fictionalized take on Jackie Kennedy and Maria Callas, whose glamorous lives intertwined with that of billionaire shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassi......more

Goodreads review by Martie on May 19, 2020

Genre: Historical Fiction/Women’s Fiction Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: August 18, 2020 Mini-Review In this historical/women’s fiction, the emphasis is on women’s fiction. The story revolves around Jackie Kennedy and the world-famous opera singer, Maria Callas, with whom Jackie vies for the affect......more

Goodreads review by Annette on May 17, 2021

Venice, 1957. Maria Callas meets Aristotle and Tina Onassis. Maria is a famous soprano, but the road to success wasn’t easy. Her husband is the one who promoted her, but it’s her regime of training her voice and perseverance that made her the success. She loves her husband, but when Maria meets Ari......more

Goodreads review by Miriam on September 25, 2020

Gill Paul is the best selling author of ‘The Secret Wife’ and her latest publication “The Second Marriage” featuring love, passion and tragedy, based on Jackie Kennedy and Maria Callas, is for me a superb example of women’s historical fiction at it’s best. Going into the story, I wasn’t fully aware o......more