Dimensions
274 x 337 x 13mm
In 1951, twenty-two-year-old Jacqueline Bouvier and her eighteen-year-old sister Lee took their first trip to Europe together. They kept an illustrated journal of their time abroad, which they presented to their parents as a thank you upon their return entitled One Special Summer. Full of original illustrations and quirky poems describing parties with counts and aristocrats this is an intimate and at times hilarious insight into a now vanished era.
Join Jackie and Lee for a tantalising glimpse of a lost world: crossing the Atlantic by ocean liner, visits with counts and ambassadors in Paris, art lessons in Venice, and white gloves in the afternoon. Smile at the social agonies all young women suffer in common – how to politely consume an oversized hors d'oeuvre, the horror of slipping undergarments, and the art of fending off unwanted romantic advances.
