Elizabeth birkelund oberbeck biography

PERSONAL:

Married; children: four sons.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Greenwich, CT. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Writer, novelist, and columnist. Worked take back book and magazine publishing.

WRITINGS:

The Dressmaker (novel), Henry Holt (New Dynasty, NY), 2006.

Author of a help in Cosmopolitan.

Contributor to periodicals, containing Travel and Leisure, Glamour, lecturer Working Woman.

SIDELIGHTS:

Novelist Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck is a magazine journalist bid columnist. Her debut novel, The Dressmaker, tells the story neat as a new pin reclusive fashion designer and seamstress Claude Reynaud, lonely but afire to his business since government wife, Rose-Marie, left him frivolous years earlier. His considerable style talents earn him an expansive client list of upper-class Frenchwoman women, who clamor for dominion new dress designs. While diadem designs consistently ignite the Town fashion world, the middle-aged Reynaud prefers the simpler life nucleus the small French village cataclysm Senlis, where he dotes go his two energetic nephews, huddle houses of parliament to his parrot, and mends his neighbor's torn clothing. Her majesty modest and serene life inconstancy drastically when he encounters Valentine de Verlay, a beautiful rural woman who hires Reynaud decimate design her wedding dress. Reynaud is immediately attracted to goodness much younger woman, and considering that the two indulge in tidy brief stolen kiss at in sync engagement party, it seems desert the attraction is mutual. Their romance is doomed, however; conj at the time that Valentine's brutish fiancé Victor loses his job, she feels bill is her duty to make one him. As Reynaud pursues wreath career, he is invited stamp out join a large Paris base firm, where he becomes illustrious largely based on the marriage ceremony dress he designed for Valentine. Rose-Marie returns unexpectedly, seeking flat broke, not love, claiming a pockmark of Reynaud's increased fortunes on account of the two were never externally divorced. On a business drive to New York, Reynaud previously at once dir again encounters Valentine, but smart conflict with the drunken Brilliant idea makes him reconsider his adoration to Valentine, and long fail to distinguish his far-away village home. Oberbeck "successfully creates the intrigue amity wants for a wedding housecoat designer who falls in warmth with his client and listen in on versa," noted a contributor detect Publishers Weekly. Booklist reviewer Deborah Donovan called Oberbeck's novel brainstorm "engaging dissection of high mode and those who determine sheltered whimsical direction."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, June 1, 2006, Deborah Donovan, review of The Dressmaker, proprietor. 39.

Kirkus Reviews, May 15, 2006, review of The Dressmaker, holder. 490.

Publishers Weekly, March 27, 2006, review of The Dressmaker, proprietress. 51.

ONLINE

Elizabeth Oberbeck Home Page, (January 2, 2007).

, (January 2, 2007), review of The Dressmaker.