A Woman of the World

By Genie Chipps Henderson

As famous for her startling photographs as for her stunning beauty and ironclad will, Kate Goodfellow is determined to get onto the battlefield, to capture World War II through her camera lens. But when a troopship headed for North Africa is torpedoed, leaving Kate and others stranded on a lifeboat, she is left looking back on her remarkable adventures and heady love affairs--and reflecting on her life with the one man she never stopped loving.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425199134
• ISBN13: 9780425199138
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 0.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A Fabulous Read !!

As pure, engrossing story telling, the author hits a perfect ten with A Woman of the World. Not only does the period (Twenties through the Forties) come to life here, the story is an inspiring one for any young girl/woman determined to follow her dreams, especially in any field where the idea that girls can't do it as well as boys still reigns. Of course, not everyone will use their wiles the way heroine Kate Goodfellow did, but that is exactly what makes this such engrossing reading. If Hollywood still made movies for women--or made more than one a year--this would be rushed to the screen with Annette Bening or Kate Blanchett or Julia Roberts or any one of a dozen other good women playing Kate.

spotlight on world events circa 1930s to early 1940s

Kate Goodfellow dreamed of becoming a photographer and with a steely determination she has made her aspirations come true even though it cost her marriage. In 1935 in New York Kate meets writer Hopper Delaney and soon they marry and collaborate on books together. Kate is on top of the world, but will not allow family or love to stand in the way of her globetrotting to take pictures at hot spots. In 1942 Kate is on her way to North Africa when the vessel she was on is sunk. While stranded with others in a lifeboat, Kate looks over her years with her box camera fearlessly going to locales and doing things women do not do, pondering whether she would have changed anything different like raising a family. Readers will admire the guts and spunk of the heroine as she visits hot spots to take pictures around the world. The story line reads somewhat like a memoir as Kate looks back at the highlights of her life and the choices she made. To learn whether she is second-guessing and filled with remorse, readers will have to read this fabulous tale that shines quite a spotlight on world events circa 1930s to early 1940s. Harriet Klausner