The Professional Widow
Corsetry with Love
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Mary finds a wonderful man, marries him and they build a life around each other. Meanwhile, meeting aspiring actress Coleen, she agrees to work in her new dress shop. Playing an Earl’s fiancée, Coleen is required to corset herself down to twenty inches. Initially hating the constriction, she starts to love the feeling, the poise and her new sumptuous figure.
Stage part over, her figure helps her to win Hollywood film parts. Mary finds that her own new corsetry entrances her husband. But the war and his Special Operations separate Mary from normality and death gives her a new profession: Widow.
Marriage is for life but widowhood is not a life. Working in fashion, caring for a relative and having a young son is demanding. Months later, researching fabrics for leading stage productions, a psychic meeting, tight dress style and many admirers mean her single life is in the balance. This realisation takes her towards a second chance of committed love.
About the Author
Born in 1938, Michael Gaze grew up surrounded by the effects of a war, boarding schools, rarely seeing his parents but leading to a self-employed life and great responsibility without the need for university. Education came from life, work and constant self-instruction. Five wildly differing occupations have given life and experiences far removed from the ordinary. Brought up on a dairy farm followed by a stint in repertory theatre, then a tedious business making medical instruments after which landscape contracting including some major London contracts and then into the insurance world where he met wonderful informative clients. In retirement he started to write and to edit factual books but his life-long interest in corsetry and his collection of antique garments has led him towards building upon his upbringing and a unique novel based around the effect of Victorian fashion upon a group of modern women who find improved looks, comfort and security. He lives with his years-younger Russian second wife, near to where he was born in Sussex.