Cette saga plonge dans le monde opulent de la haute couture, de l'ambition et des relations complexes de l'élite. Suivez le parcours d'une femme qui bâtit un empire à partir de ses humbles débuts, confrontée à des choix difficiles et à des sacrifices personnels. Elle explore la quête d'accomplissement au milieu d'un succès éblouissant et la danse complexe entre l'amour, la perte et la recherche incessante de reconnaissance. Découvrez un récit riche en drames, en triomphes et en épreuves personnelles et professionnelles.
Scruples is the novel that created publishing history, the first-and widely acknowledged to be the very best-novel ever written about the staggeringly luxurious life of a Beverly Hills boutique and the people who work in it. Scruples was translated into twenty languages and made Rodeo Drive famous around the world. With Scruples, Judith Krantz earned her reputation as a blazingly talented and original storyteller. She takes her readers behind the scenes of wealthy and fame to show them the real people and the real emotions that exist at the core of even the most high-powered lives. Scruples is the leader of her #1 best-selling novels.
Scruples, Judith Krantz's electrifying, world wide bestseller appeared fifteen years ago and made book publishing history. Now that unforgettable story, a story that marks an era, a story that millions of readers wish had never ended . . . continues. Only a single night's sleep seperates the lives of the characters in Scruples from this mesmerizing sequel. Billy Ikehorn is a contemporary woman living on a grand scale. A self-made beauty and the exquisite owner of a fabled Beverley Hills boutique called Scruples and married to the Oscar-winning producer Vito Orsini. To those who only know her from afar, she seems to lead a dream existence, wrapped in all the power of glamout, riches, and success. Then a stranger arrives in Billy's life--Gigi Orsini, Vito's sixteen-year-old daughter by an early marriage. Independent, deeply interesting, street-smart, and enchantingly humorous, Gigi captures Billy's heart and sets in motion a train of utterly unexpected events. Life with Gigi hold both joy and pain for Spider Elliot and Valentine O'Neill, Billy's partners in Scruples. The many new freinds Gigi makes during the next five years will grow important to Billy in ways she could never have forseen. Scruples Two moves swiflty and unexpectadly, filled with breathtaking change, from California to New York to Paris, following two of the most fascinating and touching females in modern fiction, Billy Ikehorn and Gigi Orsini.
Belle, talentueuse, ambitieuse, Gigi Orsini vient d'être embauchée par la plus prestigieuse agence de publicité californienne. La voilà lancée entre l'univers de Hollywood et le monde des affaires. Un monde brillant et féroce où les rivalités professionnelles et amoureuses sont implacables. Dans le même temps qu'elle obtient ses premiers succès, elle est séparée de l'homme qu'elle aime, Zach Nevski, metteur en scène adulé. Ben Winthrop, un magnat des centres commerciaux, lui semblera celui auprès de qui elle peut retrouver le bonheur... Jusqu'au moment où elle découvrira son vrai visage. Entre Los Angeles et New York, entre Venise et le Japon, bien des épreuves l'attendent encore avant qu'elle retrouve celui qu'elle n'a jamais cessé d'aimer...
