The Paris Model

Success would not depend on her beauty. It would be a test of her wits and her will.After a shocking discovery, Grace Woods leaves her vast Australian sheep station and travels to tumultuous post-war Paris in order to find her true identity.While working as a mannequin for Christian Dior, the world’s newly acclaimed emperor of fashion, Grace mixes with counts and princesses, authors and artists, diplomats and politicians.But when Grace falls for handsome Philippe Boyer, she doesn’t know that he is leading a double life, nor that his past might inflict devastating consequences upon her. As she is drawn into Philippe’s dangerous world of international espionage, Grace discovers the shattering truth of her origins – and that her life is in peril.Inspired by an astonishing true story, The Paris Model is a tale of glamour, family secrets and heartbreak that takes you from the rolling plains of country Australia to the exclusive salons of Paris.

‘A mesmerising storyteller.’ -- The Australian

Alexandra Joel is the former editor of Harper's Bazaar and of Portfolio, Australia's first magazine for working women. She has also been a regular contributor to The Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald Good Weekend Magazine. She is also the author of Rosetta, a biography of her great-grandmother – the scandalous Australian who enchanted British society – and Parade: the Story of Fashion in Australia, a social history detailing the development of fashion, style and national identity. More recently, Alexandra has been a practising counsellor and psychotherapist. She is an honours graduate from the University of Sydney and has a Graduate Diploma in Applied Psychology. Danielle Carter is a graduate of NIDA who has also worked with the Moscow Arts Theatre, MICHA and the Michael Chekhov School in the USA. She has worked extensively in theatre, film and television and has been seen on stage in Hypothalamania, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Still and on-screen in Offspring, Underbelly, Salem’s Lot, Last Dance, The Fortune Teller and Rip Tide. Danielle’s audiobook narration for Bolinda audio includes Gucci Mamas by Cate Kendall and One Door Closes by Jennifer Bacia.

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