Her experience pleasing people with her hooking leads her naturally into the interior’ decorating business. Many of her customers are married men who tell her they wish their wives could hook like she does. The friend gives her the name of a woman well set up in the hooked‐rug business and before long Xaviera is happily hooking in her spare time. But she does enjoy hooking, so she might as well get paid for it. Professional hooking is something that Xaviera had never thought of After all she had been doing it pour amour all this time. One day, while she is sitting with a male friend hooking a rug-a hobby she learned at her old Dutch grandmother's knee-the friend says, “Xaviera, you shouldn't be hooking those rugs for nothing. Poor Xaveria finds it difficult to make ends meet on her secretary's pay.
Xaveria the most precious thing a woman can give, now he reneges on his promise of marriage and starts asking her to do things that are, well, not normal. Never mind that he has already taken from (Back in her native Holland she had once been chosen Secretary of the Year.)Īlas, her dream of marriage is not to come true Carl turns out to be a heel and a mama's boy to boot. as a secretary, a job for which she has outstanding qualifications.
To tide herself over she gets a job at the Dutch Mission to the U.N. New York where, he promises her, they will be married. She has many boyfriends, but her romances are short‐lived affairs one night's duration on the average. Our story begins in South Africa, where Xaviera Devries, as ‘she was known then, is living with relatives. This is really the story of poor little Dutch girl who comes to America to manyher fiance, is jilted by him and, by dint Of talent and hard work, becomes a famous interior decorator and the author of the largest‐selling original paperback book ever published.
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