The Secret Life of Violet Grant
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00G3L14YG
Publish date: May 27th 2014
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Pages no: 448
The Secret Life of Violet Grant, Beatriz Williams, author; Kathleen McInerny, narrator Vivian Schuyler, a young Manhattan socialite, is a working girl, albeit against the wishes of her family. Although she wants to be more than a gopher at the magazine where she works, she will have to work her way ...
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This book was everything I didn't realise I was looking for, and more! Totally blew me away. The style, the plot, the end, everything. I know I'm gushing a bit but I really loved how Vivian's story was told and how Violet's played out beside hers. Can't recommend this enough.
The book goes back and forth between two young women:Vivian Schuyler is now in possession of a suitcase that once belonged to her aunt Violet. Vivian didn't even know she had an aunt Violet. With a quick phone call to her aunt Julie she learns that Violet was a scientist who murdered her husband in ...
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