The bridesmaid's daughter - Nyna Giles

The dual story of Carolyn and her child; one strand evoking a beautiful woman's success and film star friendship with Grace Kelly in '50s new York - the other a child's-eye account of a mother's descent into psychosis and a childhood of deprivation and captivity. Nyna, the youngest child of Carolyn Scott Reybolds, became the victim of her untreated mental illness. Yet through it all, like a glimpse of a different world, her mother's oldest, closest friend would write and visit, the woman to whom Caroline would always play bridesmaid: Grace Kelly.