This is the coming-of-age story of the female star of the Kennedy family, and ultimately a tragic, romantic story that will break your heart. Willing to pay the price for choosing the love she wanted, she would have to face the consequences of forsaking much that was dear to her.īestselling and award-winning biographer Barbara Leaming draws on her unique access to firsthand accounts, extensive conversations with many of the key players, and previously-unseen sources to transport us to a world of immense wealth, arcane rituals and rules, glamour and tragedy that has now disappeared forever.

For this is also a story of how a girl like Kick, a girl who seemed made for happiness, confronted crushing sadness. To Kick, everything about this life was fun and amusing-until suddenly it was not. Kick Kennedy reveals her story, that of a young girl learning about love, sex, and death - and doing it all at warp speed as the world races toward war and then reels in the war's chaotic aftermath. Kick was the girl whom all the boys fell in love with, the girl who remained painfully out of reach for most of them. James’s, Kick swept into Britain’s aristocracy like a fresh wind on a sweltering summer day. Among the competitive Kennedy children, Kathleen Kick Kennedy (1920-48) was the most vivacious and. To Kick, everything about this life was fun and amusing - until suddenly it was not. The daughter of the American ambassador to the Court of St. In a decaying world where everything was based on stultifying sameness and similarity, she was gloriously, exhilaratingly different. Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy was the incandescent life-force of the Kennedy family.

Kick kennedy by barbara leaming