The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard by Natasha Lester

The
Disappearance of
Astrid Bricard

The
Disappearance of Astrid Bricard

History said she was just a man's muse. History was wrong. 

The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard by Natasha Lester

New York, 1970: Everyone remembers her daringly short, silver lamé dress. It’s an iconic photograph capturing an electric moment, when emerging American designer Astrid Bricard is young, uninhibited, and on the cusp of fashion and feminism’s changing landscape. She and fellow designer Hawk Jones are all over Vogue magazine and New York City’s disco scene. Yet she can’t escape the shadow of her mother, Mizza Bricard, infamous “muse” for Christian Dior.  Astrid would give anything to take her place among the great houses of couture–on her own terms.

But then Astrid disappeared …

Now Astrid’s daughter, Blythe, holds what remains of her mother and grandmother’s legacies. Of all the Bricard women, she can gather the torn, painfully beautiful fabrics of three generations of heartbreak to create something that will shake the foundations of fashion. The only piece missing is the one question no one’s been able to answer: What really happened to Astrid?

“Vogue meets Daisy Jones & The Six, as three generations of women carve their mark in the world of fashion . . . with incisive observations about women's roles as muse and inspiration - and what price they pay when they dare to create for themselves.”

— KATE QUINN, New York Times best-selling author of The Diamond Eye

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Available now in ebook and audiobook. Paperback coming
May 2024.

Praise

“This book is brave, bold, and beautiful, like the three women who narrate it. Natasha Lester’s sentences blaze off the page, and I couldn’t stop reading.  Full of heart and fierce social critique …”

— KERRI MAHER, author of All You Have to Do is Call

“… as sparkly as a silver Lurex mini-dress, as cool as Mick and Bianca, and as atmospheric as a Seventies disco.”

— GILL PAUL, USA TODAY bestselling author of The Manhattan Girls

“A riveting, multi-generational story of love, loss and reclaiming one’s own power.”

— MARIE BENEDICT, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room

“This spellbinding homage to fashion and feminism is a transporting, page-turning read. I could not put this book down!”

— CHANEL CLEETON, New York Times bestselling author of Next Year in Havana