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THE FORCE OF SUCH BEAUTY
After a failed attempt at escape, the princess of a tiny kingdom begins to reevaluate her life.
Caroline, a former marathon runner who dropped out of school at fourteen to pursue an Olympic medal, was the perfect candidate for a tiara: shapely, disciplined, accustomed to public attention and utterly uneducated. After she meets Finn, the handsome prince of a small European kingdom, her fate is sealed. With a collar of pearls locked around her throat, and a rope of diamonds leashing her to a balcony, Caroline uses her once-powerful body to smile, wave, and produce children with perfect grace.
But once she begins to open her eyes to the world around her - and examine her own reflection - Caroline discovers that she may have entered a bargain that cannot be undone.
Barbara Bourland's stunning third novel is her softest, strangest book to date. Inspired by the alleged escape attempts of real-life princesses and set in a grotesque and gaudy pre-recession 2000s Europe, THE FORCE OF SUCH BEAUTY is a heart-wrenching and compulsively readable testament to the way in which real-life power structures around the world ultimately rest on the subjugation of women's bodies.
Barbara Bourland is the critically acclaimed author of I'll Eat When I'm Dead (Grand Central Publishing, 2017), a Refinery29 Best Book of 2017, a People Magazine Pick, and Irish Independent Book of the Year, and Fake Like Me (Grand Central Publishing, 2018), which received four starred reviews and was a HelloGiggles Best Book, a CrimeReads Best Crime Books of the Year, a Toronto Star Hot Summer Thriller Pick, a Refinery29 Best Book, a Cosmopolitan Must-Have, a Fortune Summer 2019 Travel Pick, and a 2020 Edgar Nominee for Best Novel. A former freelance writer and web producer at Condé Nast and Hearst, Bourland lives in Baltimore, MD.
But once she begins to open her eyes to the world around her - and examine her own reflection - Caroline discovers that she may have entered a bargain that cannot be undone.
Barbara Bourland's stunning third novel is her softest, strangest book to date. Inspired by the alleged escape attempts of real-life princesses and set in a grotesque and gaudy pre-recession 2000s Europe, THE FORCE OF SUCH BEAUTY is a heart-wrenching and compulsively readable testament to the way in which real-life power structures around the world ultimately rest on the subjugation of women's bodies.
Barbara Bourland is the critically acclaimed author of I'll Eat When I'm Dead (Grand Central Publishing, 2017), a Refinery29 Best Book of 2017, a People Magazine Pick, and Irish Independent Book of the Year, and Fake Like Me (Grand Central Publishing, 2018), which received four starred reviews and was a HelloGiggles Best Book, a CrimeReads Best Crime Books of the Year, a Toronto Star Hot Summer Thriller Pick, a Refinery29 Best Book, a Cosmopolitan Must-Have, a Fortune Summer 2019 Travel Pick, and a 2020 Edgar Nominee for Best Novel. A former freelance writer and web producer at Condé Nast and Hearst, Bourland lives in Baltimore, MD.
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Published 2022-07-19 by Dutton Books |