A certain age / Beatriz Williams.
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TextPublisher: London : HarperCollins Publishers, c2016Description: 418 pages : 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780008132613 [paperback]Subject(s): Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction | Socialites -- Fiction | New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction. -- History -- 1898-1951Genre/Form: Love stories.Summary: "New York in the Roaring Twenties – a time for love, secrets and scandal… As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent Mrs Theresa Marshall of Fifth Avenue – a beautiful socialite of a certain age – has done the unthinkable: she’s fallen in love with her young lover, Captain Octavian Rofrano, a handsome aviator and hero of the Great War.
But though times are changing, divorce for a woman of Theresa’s wealth and social standing is out of the question. When Theresa’s bachelor brother, Ox, decides to tie the knot with the youngest daughter of a newly wealthy inventor, Theresa enlists her lover to present the family’s diamond rose ring to pretty ingénue, Miss Sophie Fortescue – and to check into the background of this little-known family.
Yet even as he uncovers a shocking secret, Octavian falls under Sophie’s spell… Divided loyalties and dangerous revelations lead to a shocking transgression and eventually Theresa must make a choice that will change them all forever." --Provided by the publisher
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"New York in the Roaring Twenties – a time for love, secrets and scandal… As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent Mrs Theresa Marshall of Fifth Avenue – a beautiful socialite of a certain age – has done the unthinkable: she’s fallen in love with her young lover, Captain Octavian Rofrano, a handsome aviator and hero of the Great War.
But though times are changing, divorce for a woman of Theresa’s wealth and social standing is out of the question. When Theresa’s bachelor brother, Ox, decides to tie the knot with the youngest daughter of a newly wealthy inventor, Theresa enlists her lover to present the family’s diamond rose ring to pretty ingénue, Miss Sophie Fortescue – and to check into the background of this little-known family.
Yet even as he uncovers a shocking secret, Octavian falls under Sophie’s spell… Divided loyalties and dangerous revelations lead to a shocking transgression and eventually Theresa must make a choice that will change them all forever." --Provided by the publisher
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Lauron, Rodello General Education Fiction
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