03306cam a2200421 i 4500999001700000001000900017003000800026005001700034008004100051010001700092020002900109020003000138040002800168042000800196050002800204082001500232084004500247100002900292245006800321264004400389300002300433336002100456337002500477338002300502520184600525650002702371650002602398650003402424650004102458650005102499650004702550650003902597655004402636655003602680906004502716942001402761952010902775  c26823d2682317950342MeVbMML20191008122043.0131121s2014    nyu           000 1 eng    a  2013043630  a9780399162176 (hardback)  a9780425274842 (paperback)  aDLCbengcDLCerdadDLC  apcc00aPS3623.I55643bS43 201400a813/.6223  aFIC027050aFIC027000aFIC0140002bisacsh1 aWilliams, Beatriz.9247614aThe secret life of Violet Grant :ba novel /cBeatriz Williams. 1aNew York :bG. P. Putnam's Sons,c2014.  a436 pages ;c24 cm  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  a"Passion, redemption, and a battered old suitcase full of secrets: the New York Times-bestselling author of A Hundred Summers returns with another engrossing tale of lost love and female ambition that crosses generations.  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 Mad Men 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 detente. 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.  As the iridescent and fractured Vivian digs deeper into her aunt's past and the mystery of her ultimate fate, Violet'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 future--and the love--she wants most"--cProvided by publisher. 0aNiecesvFiction.92816 0aAuntsvFiction.92817 0aFamily secretsvFiction.9657 0aWorld War, 1914-1918vFiction.92818 7aFICTION / Romance / Historical.2bisacsh92819 7aFICTION / Romance / General.2bisacsh9803 7aFICTION / Historical.2bisacsh912 7aRomantic suspense fiction.2gsafd91756 7aHistorical fiction.2gsafd9129  a7bcbccorignewd1eecipf20gy-gencatlg  2ddccBOOK  2ddc4070aABELJbABELJcAFd2019-10-08g26.95l3oWILLp49175r2025-11-06s2025-09-19w2019-10-08yBOOK