Passion, redemption, and a battered old suitcase full of secrets: the┬аNew York Times-bestselling author of┬аA Hundred Summers┬аreturns with another engrossing tale of lost love and female ambition that crosses generations.┬а
Manhattan, 1964. Vivian Schuyler, newly graduated from Bryn Mawr College, has recently defied the privilege of her storied old Fifth Avenue family to do the unthinkable for a budding Kennedy-era socialite: break into the┬аMad Men┬аworld of razor-stylish┬аMetropolitan┬аmagazine. But when she receives a bulky overseas parcel in the mail, the unexpected contents draw her inexorably back into her familyтАЩs past, and the hushed-over┬аcrime passionnel┬аof an aunt she never knew, whose existence has been wiped from the record of history.
Berlin, 1914. Violet Schuyler Grant endures her marriage to the philandering and decades-older scientist Dr. Walter Grant for one reason: for all his faults, he provides the necessary support to her liminal position as a young American female physicist in prewar Germany. The arrival of Dr. GrantтАЩs magnetic former student at the beginning of EuropeтАЩs fateful summer interrupts this delicate d├йtente. Lionel Richardson, a captain in the British Army, challenges Violet to escape her husbandтАЩs perverse hold, and as the world edges into war and LionelтАЩs shocking true motives become evident, Violet is tempted to take the ultimate step to set herself free and seek a life of her own conviction with a man whose cause is as audacious as her own.
As the iridescent and fractured Vivian digs deeper into her auntтАЩs past and the mystery of her ultimate fate, VioletтАЩs story of determination and desire unfolds, shedding light on the darkness of her years abroad . . . and teaching Vivian to reach forward with grace for the ambitious futureтАУтАУand the loveтАУтАУshe wants most.
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