I had trouble getting into this book and I had trouble finishing it.

The story rotates perspective between Lily, Joy and Honor.

Lily is a popular vintage clothing blogger. She once had dreams of being a designer.

The other two stories took place in the past:
Joy-a beautiful socialite with nothing but money and time, but what she really wants is love
Honor- a young designer who gets her big break when Joy hires her exclusively to make a dress for a very important night

The dress sounds amazing, if it were real I would love to see pictures.

But the story is just extremely depressing for most of the book.
Joy married Frank thinking she'd found love, he wanted a baby and her first disappointment to him was that she did not get pregnant. When she turned to alcohol, she disappointed him again. When she stopped drinking, he felt she'd waited too long and that he didn't love her anymore. As much as Joy just wanted love, she disappointed her husband practically every day.

Having the dress made was her grand gesture to win back his love.

I'm not even going to touch on how downhill Honor's story went.

I am very thankful that Joy was ultimately able to find happiness by the end but I guess I would have liked it if Joy and Honor both figured things out earlier and got their lives back on track much earlier.
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Three women and one dress. London 2014, Lily Fitzpatrick loves vintage clothes. When she comes across an article about a legendary evening dress she has to find out more about it. New York in the 1950's Joy Fitzpatrick is a very beautiful socialite and employs Honour to make her the best dress ever seen.

This book sounded interesting and although I am not a chick lit reader sometimes I need a change. The story was ok and there was enough to hold my interest. I wanted to know what was going to happen to the three women and the dress.

What I enjoyed was the story and the I wanted to see how it was going to pan out. Three women all connected by the dress all with their own story. I enjoyed the making of the dress and the descriptions.

What I didn't enjoy was the story was a little slow to start. Once it got going it was ok. The story was predictable and I could easily guess how it was going to go. I cringed when Lily used the word dreamboat.

A nice easy read and it made a change from dead bodies but very predictable. A little flat at times but had lovely descriptions. ( )

The Dress by Kate Kerrigan is a plot-driven book across two time periods. The book starts slow, with a lot of time spent on the initial setup and the first creation of the dress. Then, all of a sudden, everything seems to happen with the story delving into a lot of different topics. The "why" and "how" unfortunately are missing. Although a plot driven drama can make for a wonderful book, without the explanations, this story loses its sense of reality for this reader.

Read my complete review at http://www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2016/11/the-dress.html

Reviewed based on a publisher’s galley received through NetGalley ( )

Lily Fitzpatrick loves vintage clothes, made all the more precious because they were once owned and loved by another woman. Thousands follow her vintage fashion blog and her daily Instagram feed. But this passion for the beautiful clothes of the past is about to have unforeseen consequences, when Lily stumbles upon the story of a 1950s New York beauty, who was not only everything Lily longs to be, but also shares Lily's surname. Joy Fitzpatrick was a legend. But what was the famous dress which she once commissioned, said to be so original that nothing in couture would ever match it again? What happened to it—and why did Joy suddenly disappear from New York high society? Kate Kerrigan's enthralling novel interweaves the dramatic story of Joy, the beautiful but tortured socialite, and that of Lily, determined to uncover the truth and, if possible, bring back to life the legendary dress itself. ( )

A wonderful light read, funny, informative about how fashion shoots
happen nowadays, very entertaining. ( )