The Secret Life of Violet Grant is
written about two very independent women at two very different times in
history. Violet Grant is a scientist, in
1914 in England and later in Germany, who marries another scientist, who is many
years her senior. He turns out to be
something of a sex fiend, not just with her but with other participants. She stays, uncomplaining, in the union until
she meets Lionel Richardson and her whole life changes.
Violet’s niece, Vivian Schuyler, lives
in NYC in the 60s and has chosen a life as a writer over the traditional role
of women at that time as wife/mother.
Vivian receives a suitcase in the mail which belonged to Violet and she
then begins an investigation into what became of her aunt.
The writing is very good in this book,
there is no way to confuse the stories of the two women. Those stories are told in alternate chapters
and it is a page turner, to say the least.
Beatriz Williams wrote A Hundred
Summers, which was another excellent read.
A couple characters from that book reappear in Violet Grant, but they do
not play important roles in the stories of Violet and Vivian so it is by no means a sequel, or series, which I appreciated.
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