by Natasha Lester | Jun 6, 2020 | Diary, The Paris Secret
Imagine being asked to fly an open-cockpit aeroplane, totally exposed to all the elements, for four hours to Scotland in winter in minus thirty degrees wind-chill. I don’t know that I would survive such a trip. But the female pilots in The Paris Secret survived...
by Natasha Lester | Apr 15, 2020 | Diary, The Paris Secret
Here’s the next instalment in my video series about the research behind The Paris Secret, the writing of the book and way I’ve used real life events and people in the story. Australians Were the First in the World to See Dior’s Gowns You’ve...
by Natasha Lester | Apr 7, 2020 | Diary, The Paris Secret
Introducing Catherine Dior … I expect most people have heard of Catherine’s brother, Christian Dior. But how many people have heard of Catherine Dior? Catherine worked for the French Resistance during WWII. She was arrested by the Nazis and deported to...
by Natasha Lester | Mar 28, 2020 | Diary, The Paris Secret
The Books Starts With … The Paris Secret opens with my contemporary protagonist, Kat Jourdan, finding a wardrobe full of sixty-five Christian Dior gowns hiding in her grandmother’s abandoned cottage in Cornwall. Kat’s a fashion conservator, so she...
by Natasha Lester | Nov 10, 2019 | Diary, The Paris Secret
I’m so excited to reveal the cover for my next book, THE PARIS SECRET! This will be published in Australia on 31 March 2020 and this is the Australian cover. THE PARIS SECRET will also be published in the US in September 2020 and in the UK in late 2020....
by Natasha Lester | Jul 3, 2018 | Diary, For Writers: Writing Tips, The Paris Secret
A few weeks ago, I started on the second draft of The Dior Bequest, the book I’m working on for 2020. I’ve mentioned before that my first drafts are a bit of a mess, which means I need to do quite a lot of work in my second draft. I think of this work as...
