3.5
this was a good story...just not the 4-5 stars for me that everyone else is giving it.
It is interesting to read about england post WW II...you tend to forget that it still was a very hard world for the english --- rebuilding needed to take place and the economy was in tatters.
the story was a different take on that time period.....you still wonder why Ann and Miriam did not stay in touch, especially after Ann saw her design in canada

As old fashioned and lovely as the pearl beads adorning the wedding gown of Queen Elizabeth, The Gown takes us into post-war London. Great love, loss and a cruel deception pepper the lives of the ladies who created The Gown. Makes me want to book a trip to London with a first stop at Buckingham Palace to see the historic Gown.

A very interesting back story of the people behind the making of the royal wedding gown for Princess Elizabeth, now Queen Elizabeth II. The story centers mainly on Ann and Miriam, 2 women who work to embroider the wedding dress. Ann, a poor Londoner, befriends Miriam, an immigrant from France. They quickly become friends and work together embroidering the dress each day.
Ann is lonely, as her sister-in-law, Milly, left after being widowed and moved to Canada. Miriam has horrible memories of what happened to her family during WWII. Ann encourages Miriam in her art.
Now, 60 years later, Ann's granddaughter, Heather, wants to find out more about her grandmother and goes to England to see what she can uncover.
Lovely story of friendship, betrayal, art, and kindness.
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