The White Rose
Published by Grand Central Publishing
New York Times–Bestselling Author of The Plot: A May-December romance tale “rife with deliciously cutting social satire [and] observations on growing older” (Vogue).
Passion, infidelity, social climbing, and one very special white rose weave a seductive narrative in this “droll, sexy, and very clever” novel (Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent).
At forty-eight, Marian Kahn, a professor of history at Columbia, has reached a comfortable perch. Married, wealthy, and the famed discoverer of the 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 cousin, the snobbish 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 . . .
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’s beloved opera, Der Rosenkavalier, and a mesmerizing novel of our own time and place.
“Utterly charming and sharply written.” —Seattle Times
“A satisfying, emotionally rich read.” —Publishers Weekly
Passion, infidelity, social climbing, and one very special white rose weave a seductive narrative in this “droll, sexy, and very clever” novel (Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent).
At forty-eight, Marian Kahn, a professor of history at Columbia, has reached a comfortable perch. Married, wealthy, and the famed discoverer of the 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 cousin, the snobbish 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 . . .
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’s beloved opera, Der Rosenkavalier, and a mesmerizing novel of our own time and place.
“Utterly charming and sharply written.” —Seattle Times
“A satisfying, emotionally rich read.” —Publishers Weekly
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