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A certain age / Beatriz Williams.

by Williams, Beatriz.

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HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016.

Socialites -- Fiction.

Rich people -- Fiction.

Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction

Adultery -- Fiction.

Scandals -- Fiction.

Secrecy -- Fiction.

Nineteen twenties -- Fiction.

New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction

9780062440280 (trade pbk.)

0062440284 (trade pbk.)

1st HarperLuxe ed.

520 p. ; 23 cm.

"As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent Mrs. Theresa Marshall of Fifth Avenue and Southampton, Long Island, has done the unthinkable: she’s fallen in love with her young paramour, Captain Octavian Rofrano, a handsome aviator and hero of the Great War. An intense and deeply honorable man, Octavian is devoted to the beautiful socialite of a certain age and wants to marry her. While times are changing and she does adore the Boy, divorce for a woman of Theresa’s wealth and social standing is out of the question, and there is no need; she has an understanding with Sylvo, her generous and well-respected philanderer husband. But their relationship subtly shifts when her bachelor brother, Ox, decides to tie the knot with the sweet younger daughter of a newly wealthy inventor. Engaging a longstanding family tradition, Theresa enlists the Boy to act as her brother’s cavalier, presenting the family’s diamond rose ring to Ox’s intended, Miss Sophie Fortescue--and to check into the background of the little-known Fortescue family. When Octavian meets Sophie, he falls under the spell of the pretty ingénue, even as he uncovers a shocking family secret. As the love triangle of Theresa, Octavian, and Sophie progresses, it transforms into a saga of divided loyalties, dangerous revelations, and surprising twists that will lead to a shocking transgression... and eventually force Theresa to make a bittersweet choice. Full of the glamour, wit and delicious twists that are the hallmarks of Beatriz Williams’ fiction and alternating between Sophie’s spirited voice and Theresa’s vibrant timbre, A Certain Age is a beguiling reinterpretation of Richard Strauss’s comic opera Der Rosenkavalier, set against the sweeping decadence of Gatsby’s New York."--From publisher.

Historical fiction.

Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949. Rosenkavalier (Opera)

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