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Gill Paul

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Gill Paul is the international bestselling author of thirteen novels, many of them reevaluating extraordinary twentieth-century women whom she believes have been marginalized or misjudged. Her novels have reached the top of the USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Toronto Globe & Mail charts, and have been translated into twenty-three languages.
Her latest novel, Scandalous Women (2024), is about trailblazing authors Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann battling their way to the top in the misogynous boys' club of 1960s publishing. A Beautiful Rival (2023) is about the infamous feud between beauty tycoons Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein. Jackie and Maria (2020) was longlisted for the Historical Writers’ Association Gold Crown. The Coll
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Gill Paul Hi Abby, I'd love to go back to the Romanovs some day, but there have been so many novels about them recently that it might be hard to find an origina…moreHi Abby, I'd love to go back to the Romanovs some day, but there have been so many novels about them recently that it might be hard to find an original subject. Do let me know if you have any ideas! If readers suggest a topic that I end up writing about, I dedicate the book to them.
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The Secret Wife

4.18 avg rating — 48,910 ratings — published 2016 — 51 editions
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Another Woman's Husband

4.08 avg rating — 5,640 ratings — published 2017 — 23 editions
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The Lost Daughter

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Women & Children First

4.16 avg rating — 4,493 ratings — published 2012 — 13 editions
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A Beautiful Rival: A Novel ...

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No Place For A Lady: A swee...

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The Collector's Daughter

3.76 avg rating — 3,635 ratings — published 2021 — 15 editions
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The Manhattan Girls

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The Affair

3.75 avg rating — 3,095 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions
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There have been several novels about Jackie Kennedy Onassis in recent years, including "Jacqueline in Paris" by Ann Mah, "And They Called it Camelot" by Stephanie Marie Thornton, and my own "Jackie and Maria". All of us cheekily presume to get inside ...more
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"A glittering historical novel about Jackie Collins and Jaqueline Susann - 1960s authors who dared to write about female sexuality
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Lyndsy Spence takes the unusual step of starting this extraordinary biography in 1953, when Vivien Leigh was about to turn forty and had already played the roles for which she is best remembered, when her glittering celebrity marriage to Laurence Oli ...more
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“You Jump, I jump, remember

-Kate Winslet Titanic”
Gill Paul, Titanic Love Stories: The True Stories of 13 Honeymoon Couples Who Sailed on the Titanic

“London and New York, and the hire car’s Sat Nav told her she had driven 252 miles since leaving the airport. A whole ocean and half a state lay between her and Tom. She should have been upset but instead she felt numb. Back in the UK it was four-thirty on a Sunday afternoon and she wondered what Tom was doing, then grimaced as she pictured him pottering around the house in his jogging bottoms and t-shirt. He would no doubt have called her closest friends, all innocence, asking if they knew where she was. How long would it take him to work out she had flown to America to look for the lakeside cabin she’d inherited from her great-”
Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

“To feel that another human being truly understood the core of you and loved what they saw, while you felt the same about them – that was the best feeling of all. In”
Gill Paul, The Secret Wife

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