Description The million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday.
She lives in Connecticut, where she spends her days filling legal pads with storie.
About the author Martha Hall Kelly is the New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls.
In her newest powerful tale told through female-driven perspectives, Martha Hall Kelly celebrates the unbreakable bonds of women\'s friendship, especially during the darkest days of history.
Petersburg and aristocratic countryside estates to the avenues of Paris where a society of fallen Russian migr s live to the mansions of Long Island, the lives of Eliza, Sofya, and Varinka will intersect in profound ways.
From the turbulent streets of St.
But when Sofya\'s letters suddenly stop coming, she fears the worst for her best friend.
On the other side of the Atlantic, Eliza is doing her part to help the White Russian families find safety as they escape the revolution.
In need of domestic help, they hire the local fortune-teller\'s daughter, Varinka, unknowingly bringing intense danger into their household.
But when Austria declares war on Serbia and Russia\'s imperial dynasty begins to fall, Eliza escapes back to America, while Sofya and her family flee to their country estate.
Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a lifetime, home with Sofya to see the splendors of Russia: the church with the interior covered in jeweled mosaics, the Rembrandts at the tsar\'s Winter Palace, the famous ballet.
The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes.
Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs.
Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St.
It is 1914, and the world has been on the brink of war so often, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest.
Petersburg to Paris under the shadow of World War I.
Now Lost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline\'s mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St.
Description The million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday
