The Secret Life of Violet Grant

The Secret Life of Violet Grant

â€œWilliams conjures up another substantive beach read steeped in history and familial intrigue.... Readers will love wallowing in the twists and turns of this irresistibly luxurious tale.â€ â€”Booklist

Passion, redemption, and a battered suitcase full of secrets: theÂ New York Times-bestselling author ofÂ A Hundred SummersÂ returns with another engrossing tale.Â

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 theÂ Madison AvenueÂ world of razor-stylishÂ MetropolitanÂ magazine. But when she receives a bulky overseas parcel in the mail, the unexpected contents draw her inexorably back into her familyâ€™s past, and the hushed-overÂ crime passionnelÂ of 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. Grantâ€™s magnetic former student at the beginning of Europeâ€™s fateful summer interrupts this delicate dÃ©tente. Lionel Richardson, a captain in the British Army, challenges Violet to escape her husbandâ€™s perverse hold, and as the world edges into war and Lionelâ€™s 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 auntâ€™s past and the mystery of her ultimate fate, Violetâ€™s 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 futureâ€“â€“and the loveâ€“â€“she wants most.
Country USA
Brand G.P. Putnam's Sons
Manufacturer G.P. Putnam's Sons
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2014-05-27
UnitCount 1
UPCs 884662035156
EANs 9780399162176

Country	USA
Brand	G.P. Putnam's Sons
Manufacturer	G.P. Putnam's Sons
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2014-05-27
UnitCount	1
UPCs	884662035156
EANs	9780399162176

The Secret Life of Violet Grant

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