#15 The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz WilliamsManhattan, 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.
This was fun. The chapters alternated between Vivian in 1964 and Violet in 1914. Some parts pushed credibility but it was an entertaining read.
