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It's a dress in a million . . . - Hand-made in sleek, scarlet satin, it's a dress for seduction. Its journey begins with Carolyn, who plans to wear it at her silver wedding party to remind Oliver that he's the luckiest man he knows. But by the time Carolyn collects it from the seamstress her world has been shaken. She opts instead for the safety of black, and gives the red dress to a friend . . . So the dress' journey continues; the repository of hopes, dreams, fantasies and aspirations.
A garment that brings out a glamorous alter ego in its wearers is the catalyst for change in five lives. British author Harrison (The Grass Memorial, 2002, etc.) begins her novella-in-stories with elegant Carolyn Summerby, beloved proprietor of a haute hat-rental shop and 40ish wife of high-flying businessman Oliver. Eager to shake up the tasteful image she's so carefully cultivated in their affluent English village, Carolyn orders a custom-tailored, red satin dress for her silver-anniversary party. But when she senses something not quite right between Oliver and Saskia, the tattooed bohemian daughter of friends who is also the hat shop's sole employee, Carolyn is forced to let go of long-held illusions about the state of her marriage-and to relinquish the party dress. Consigned to a secondhand store, the dress next makes its way to "stroppy, stocky, sideways Monica," who finds romance and the perfect outfit, in that order. A group-home worker whose cropped hair and butch looks belie her desire to be courted by a towering he-man, Monica at last meets her match in firefighter Fergal and shows off her newfound identity. As for the dress, it soon passes to Pauline, a straitlaced receptionist with a live-in boyfriend whose cozy domesticity is derailed by her sudden attraction to a stranger named Jane; Jasper, a popular, soccer-loving teenager who also enjoys the feel of women's clothing; and Maurice, a committed thespian who grudgingly accepts the job of directing a community-theater production and unexpectedly falls for a cast member. The final plot twist is no surprise, nor are others in these individual stories, but Harrison's narration is breezy, and her characters, if at times flat, canbe endearing.
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