The Secret Life of Violet Grant
New from the author of A Hundred Summers: a story of love and intrigue that travels from Kennedy-era Manhattan to World War I Europe…A People StyleWatch “Must Read Book”One of Reader’s Digest’s Top Summer Thrillers of the YearFresh from college, irrepressible Vivian Schuyler defies her wealthy...
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New from the author of A Hundred Summers: a story of love and intrigue that travels from Kennedy-era Manhattan to World War I Europe…A People StyleWatch “Must Read Book”One of Reader’s Digest’s Top Summer Thrillers of the YearFresh from college, irrepressible Vivian Schuyler defies her wealthy Fifth Avenue family to work at cutthroat Metropolitan magazine. But this is 1964
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780425274842 (0425274845)
ASIN: 425274845
Publisher: Berkley
Pages no: 528
Edition language: English
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 ...
They say time is supposed to lengthen when you're in shock, that your body shuts itself down, but I felt the opposite. I felt as if the seconds were racing by, sharp with unnecessary detail, the molecules of air pinging separately and rapidly against me. After reading A Hundred Summers and absolute...
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