The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams

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. A story of love and intrigue that travels from Kennedy-era Manhattan to World War I Europe from the New York Times bestselling author of Her Last Flight and.

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.įifty years later, Violet’s ultimate fate remains shrouded in mystery. This is historical fiction,pre-conceived WWI at its best Beatriz Williams starts with dual eras 1964 with the Vietnam War, and the age of awareness and.

Vivian Schuyler comes from a wealthy New York family but she's determined to make her own way as a writer. The story alternates between Vivian's life in 1960s New York City and Violet's life abroad in the early 1900s. In 1912, Violet Schuyler Grant moved to Europe to study physics, and made a disastrous marriage to a philandering fellow scientist. The Secret Life of Violet Grant is part historical fiction, part family drama and part mystery.

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. A story of love and intrigue that travels from Kennedy-era Manhattan to World War I Europe from the New York Times bestselling author of Her Last Flight and The Golden Hour.įresh from college, irrepressible Vivian Schuyler defies her wealthy Fifth Avenue family to work at cutthroat Metropolitan magazine. 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 Madison Avenue world of razor-stylish Metropolitan magazine.

The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams