louise c wants what jackie o had unhappy with her looks her life and her empty marriage louise canova needs help and she finds it in a secondhand bookstore a fortyyearold encyclopedia of style titled elegance this slim volume by formidable french fashion expert madame dariaux promises to transform even the plainest of women into creatures of poise and grace it is a fairy godmother in print an atoz manual with essential advice that louise vows to take to heart but within its pages lie not only clues from her past but also powerful lessons for the future and as the old louise gives way to the stunning new shes about to find out that theres more to every life than what appears on the surface and that everything even elegance has its price