Meant to be : a novel /
Giffin, Emily,
Meant to be : a novel / Emily Giffin. - Unabridged. - [New York] : Penguin Random House Audio, [2022] - 9 audio discs (11 hr., 30 min.) ; 4 3/4 in. - 113000 - 4 3/4 in.
Read by Caroline Hewitt and Robert Petkoff ; with a dedication and note read by the author.
The Kingsley family is American royalty, beloved for their military heroics, political service, and unmatched elegance. In 1967, after Joseph S. Kingsley, Jr. is killed in a tragic accident, his charismatic son inherits the weight of that legacy. But Joe III is a free spirit, and a little bit reckless. Despite his best intentions, he has trouble meeting the expectations of a nation, as well as those of his exacting mother, Dottie. Meanwhile, no one ever expected anything of Cate Cooper. She, too, grew up fatherless, and after her mother marries an abusive man, she is forced to fend for herself. After being discovered by a model scout at age sixteen, Cate decides that her looks may be her only ticket out of the cycle of disappointment that her mother has always inhabited. Before too long, Cate's face is in magazines and on billboards. Yet she feels like a fraud, faking it in a world to which she's never truly belonged. When Joe and Cate unexpectedly cross paths one afternoon, their connection is instant and intense. But can their relationship survive the glare of the spotlight and the so-called Kingsley curse?
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9780593587324
PRHA 12351 Random House Audio 14575140
60f7qm Blackstone Publishing 40f7qm Blackstone Publishing
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Models (Persons)--Fiction.
Rich people--Fiction.
Social classes--Fiction.
Fathers--Death--Fiction.
Audiobooks.
Romance fiction.
Meant to be : a novel / Emily Giffin. - Unabridged. - [New York] : Penguin Random House Audio, [2022] - 9 audio discs (11 hr., 30 min.) ; 4 3/4 in. - 113000 - 4 3/4 in.
Read by Caroline Hewitt and Robert Petkoff ; with a dedication and note read by the author.
The Kingsley family is American royalty, beloved for their military heroics, political service, and unmatched elegance. In 1967, after Joseph S. Kingsley, Jr. is killed in a tragic accident, his charismatic son inherits the weight of that legacy. But Joe III is a free spirit, and a little bit reckless. Despite his best intentions, he has trouble meeting the expectations of a nation, as well as those of his exacting mother, Dottie. Meanwhile, no one ever expected anything of Cate Cooper. She, too, grew up fatherless, and after her mother marries an abusive man, she is forced to fend for herself. After being discovered by a model scout at age sixteen, Cate decides that her looks may be her only ticket out of the cycle of disappointment that her mother has always inhabited. Before too long, Cate's face is in magazines and on billboards. Yet she feels like a fraud, faking it in a world to which she's never truly belonged. When Joe and Cate unexpectedly cross paths one afternoon, their connection is instant and intense. But can their relationship survive the glare of the spotlight and the so-called Kingsley curse?
9780593587324 0593587324
9780593587324
PRHA 12351 Random House Audio 14575140
60f7qm Blackstone Publishing 40f7qm Blackstone Publishing
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Models (Persons)--Fiction.
Rich people--Fiction.
Social classes--Fiction.
Fathers--Death--Fiction.
Audiobooks.
Romance fiction.