Description

This absolutely irresistible historical romance imagines the courtship between Jacqueline Bouvier and the future American president she loved People

In 1951 former debutante Jacqueline Bouvier is hard at work as the Inquiring Camera Girl for a Washington newspaper Her mission in life is not to be a housewife but when she meets the charismatic congressman Jack Kennedy at a Georgetown party her resolution begins to falter Soon the two are flirting over secret phone calls cocktails and dinner dates and as Jackie is drawn deeper into the Kennedy orbit and as Jack himself grows increasingly elusive and absent she begins to question what life at his side would mean For answers she turns to his best friend and confidant Lem Billings a closeted gay man who has made the Kennedy family his own and who has been instructed by them to seal the deal with Jacks new girl But as he gets to know her a deep and touching friendship emerges leaving him with painfully divided alliances and a troubling dilemma Is this the marriage she deserves

Narrated by an older Lem as he looks back at his own role in a complicated alliance this is a courtship story full of longing and of suspense of whatifs and possible wrong turns It is a surprising look at Jackie before she was that Jackie And in bestselling author Louis Bayards witty and deeply empathetic telling Jackie amp Me is a pageturning story of friendship love sacrifice and betrayal and a fresh take on two iconic American figures