Author |
Williams, Beatriz |
Year |
2015 |
First published |
2014 |
Publisher |
: Berkley |
Number of pages |
502 |
Edition |
First US Paperback |
ISBN |
9780425274842 |
Keywords |
FMS Library Book, Continental Europe, USA or Canada, physics, women in science, literary or mainstream, historical, female scientist |
Abstract
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 the Madison Avenue world of razor-stylish
Metropolitan magazine.
But when she receives a bulky overseas parcel in the mail, the
unexpected contents draw her inexorably back into her family’s past, and
the hushed-over
crime passionnel 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. Grant’s magnetic former student at the beginning of
Europe’s fateful summer interrupts this delicate détente. Lionel
Richardson, a captain in the British Army, challenges Violet to escape
her husband’s perverse hold, and as the world edges into war and
Lionel’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. (Amazon)