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The secret life of Violet Grant / Beatriz Williams.

Williams, Beatriz, (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780425283837
ISBN: 0425283836
Physical Description: 519 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: Berkley trade paperback edition.
Publisher: New York, New York : Berkley Books, 2015.
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

General Note:

"A novel" -- Cover.

Includes excerpt from Tiny Little Thing.

Includes excerpt from Truelove.

Includes author Q&A.

Includes discussion questions.

Summary, etc.:

"Fresh from college, irrepressible Vivian Schuyler defies her wealthy Fifth Avenue family to work at cutthroat Metropolitan magazine. But this is 1964, and the editor dismisses her...until a parcel lands on Vivian's Greenwich Village doorstep that starts a journey into the life of an aunt she never knew, who might give her just the story she's been waiting for. In 1912, Violet Schuyler Grant moved to Europe to study physics, and made a disastrous marriage to a philandering fellow scientist. As the continent edges closer to the brink of war, a charismatic British army captain enters her life, drawing her into an audacious gamble that could lead to happiness...or disaster. Fifty years later, Violet's ultimate fate remains shrouded in mystery. But the more obsessively Vivian investigates her disappearing aunt, the more she realizes all they have in common--and that Violet's secret life is about to collide with hers." -- Page [4] cover.