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Ballantine Books
April 2019
On Sale: April 9, 2019
Featuring: Eliza Ferriday
448 pages
ISBN: 1524796379
EAN: 9781524796372
Kindle: B07FBYYX75
Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical
The runaway bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the
real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. This sweeping new
novel, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true
events, features Caroline's mother, Eliza, and follows
three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris
under the shadow of World War I.
It is 1914 and
the world has been on the brink of war so many times, many
New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest.
Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg
with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. The two
met years ago one summer in Paris and became close
confidantes. Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a lifetime,
home with Sofya to see the splendors of Russia. 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. In need
of domestic help, they hire the local fortuneteller's
daughter, Varinka, unknowingly bringing intense danger into
their household. 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. But when Sofya's
letters suddenly stop coming she fears the worst for her
best friend.
From the turbulent streets of St.
Petersburg to the avenues of Paris and the society of fallen
Russian émigrés who live there, the lives of Eliza, Sofya,
and Varinka will intersect in profound ways, taking readers
on a breathtaking ride through a momentous time in history.
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