Publisher's Synopsis
Passion, infidelity, social climbing, and one very special white rose weave a seductive narrative in this intelligent and tender novel.
At forty-eight, Marian Kahn, a professor of history at Columbia University, has reached a comfortable perch. Married, wealthy, and the famed discoverer of eighteenth-century adventuress Lady Charlotte Wilcox, she ought to be content. Instead, she is horrified to find herself profoundly in love with twenty-six-year-old Oliver, the son of her eldest friend. When Marian s snobbish cousin Barton announces his engagement to Sophie, a graduate student in Marian s department, Marian, Oliver, and Sophie find their lives woefully entangled and their hearts turned in unfamiliar directions. All three of them will learn that love may seldom be straightforward, but it s always a gift.
From the West Village to the Upper East Side, from the Hamptons to Millbrook, "The White Rose" is at once a nuanced and affectionate reimagining of Strauss beloved opera "Der Rosenkavalier" and a mesmerizing novel of our own time and place."
