The Fashion Orphans

This cowriting project is sure to please fans of Rose (Cartier’s Hope) and Meyers (The Widow of Wall Street). Estranged half-sisters Lulu and Gabrielle aren’t very close, but they will have to work together to decode the last wishes of their deceased mother, Bette, who wanted her daughters to sort out the contents of her apartment. Lulu, Bette’s younger daughter, is widowed; she still works at her late husband’s bakery and is drowning in debt. Gabrielle is recently divorced and disgraced after her ex-husband and his girlfriend trashed her name and ruined her career as a costume designer. When the sisters search through their mother’s things, which they must catalogue and make final plans for, they find her hidden closet of vintage Chanel. With the help of Bette’s friends and the owner of the bookshop where Gabrielle works, Lulu and Gabrielle decide what to do with their mother’s Chanel collection—but when they must make sacrifices to realize their dream for the collection, they’ll have to face the possibility of failure. Their mother’s encouragement from beyond the grave turns out to be more support than she’d ever given them when she was alive.