Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams. Beatriz writes the BEST beach books. A Hundred Summers was on the list last year, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. This is her latest novel, another romantic, page-turning saga set against vivid historical backdrops. Secret Life has interwoven narratives – that of young Vivian Schuyler in 1964 Manhattan, and of her aunt, Violet Schuyler Grant in 1914 Berlin - an aunt Vivian never knew she had until she receives a mysterious parcel and begins to unravel a secret family history.
