Little Black Dress by Susan McBride

Two sisters whose lives seemed forever intertwined are torn apart when a magical little black dress gives each one a glimpse of an unavoidable future. Antonia Ashton has worked hard to build a thriving career and a committed relationship, but she realizes her life has gone off-track. Forced to return home to Blue Hills when her mother, Evie, suffers a massive stroke, Toni finds the old Victorian where she grew up as crammed full of secrets as it is with clutter. Now she must put her mother’s house in order—and uncover long-buried truths about Evie and her aunt, Anna, who vanished fifty years earlier on the eve of her wedding.

By shedding light on the past, Toni illuminates her own mistakes and learns the most unexpected things about love, magic, and a little black dress with the power to break hearts...and mend them.

Thoughts/Mini-Review


Little Black Dress is a darling story about two sisters Evie and Anna and their mother going through life and tossed with a little magic. Very reminiscent of Anne Brashares Sisterhood Series, LBD made me long for my own magical black dress.

Delightful, charming and even a tad bit emotional Little Black Dress promises to pull the reader into a story about women and the power that binds them together through motherhood, sisterhood and friendship. As each character travels the road to mending, hearts are changed and eyes are opened to move past dark family secrets.

Even if you don't believe in magic, this delightful book will help change your mind with its charming story and witty writing.

4/5- Women's-Contemporary
Thanks to publisher and Tlc for review copy

Susan McBride is the author of Little Black Dress and The Cougar Club, selected by Target Stores as a Bookmarked Breakout Title and named a Midwest Connections Pick by the Midwest Booksellers Association. After Little Black Dress, Susan will pen another women’s fiction novel for HarperCollins and a young adult thriller for Random House (details to come!).
On the personal front, Susan calls herself an “Accidental Cougar” after meeting a younger man in 2005 when she was a St. Louis Magazine Top Single. They were married in February 2008 and live happily ever after in a suburb of St. Louis. Susan is a breast cancer survivor and often speaks to women’s groups about her experience. She has authored several YA series books for Random House about debutantes in Houston, the debut in 2008 appropriately titled The Debs and followed by Love, Lies, And Texas Dips in 2009. Gloves Off, the third book, is in pub date limbo.Visit Susan at her website, susanmcbride.com.