Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn-Quality Guarantee

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While her name is synonymous with elegance, style and grace, this poignant, funny and deeply moving biography, reveals the private Audrey Hepburn and invites readers to fall in love with her all over again.

Over the course of her extraordinarylife and career, Audrey captured hearts around the world and created a publicimage that stands as one of the most recognizable and beloved in recent memory. Butdespite her international fame and her tireless efforts on behalf of UNICEF, Audreywas also known for her intense privacy. With unprecedented access to studio archives,friends and colleagues who knew and loved Audrey, bestselling author Donald Spotoprovides an intimate and moving account of this beautiful, elusive and talented woman.

Tracing her astonishing rise to stardom, from her harrowing childhood in Nazi-controlledHolland during World War II to her years as a struggling ballet dancer in Londonand her Tony Award–winning Broadway debut in Gigi, Spoto illuminates the originsof Audrey’s tenacious spirit and fiercely passionate nature. She would go on tostar in some of the most popular movies of the twentieth century, including RomanHoliday, Sabrina, Funny Face, The Nun’s Story, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and My FairLady. A friend and inspiration to renowned designer Hubert de Givenchy, Audrey also emergedas a fashion icon and her influence on women’s fashion virtuallyunparalleled to this day.

Behind the glamorous public persona, Audrey was a different and deeper person and a woman who craved love and Spoto offers remarkable insights into her professional and personal relationshipswith her two husbands, and with celebrities such as Gregory Peck, William Holden,Fred Astaire, Gary Cooper, Robert Anderson, Cary Grant, Peter O’Toole, Albert Finneyand Ben Gazzara. The turbulent romances of her youth, her profound sympathy for theplight of hungry children, and the thrills and terrors of motherhood prepared Audreyfor the final chapter in her life, as she devoted herself entirely to the charityefforts of an organization that had once come to her rescue at the end of the war:UNICEF.