****From the** ***New York Times*** **bestselling author of** ***The House at Tyneford*****, an epic family saga about a headstrong Austrian heiress who will be forced to choose between the family she's made and the family that made her at the outbreak of World War I**.** *Vienna, 1911*. Twenty-on
House of Gold
โ Scribed by Natasha Solomons
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 384 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Penguin Publishing Group, 2018.
- ISBN
- 0525640401
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โฆ Synopsis
From the New York Times bestselling author of The House at Tyneford, an epic family saga about a headstrong Austrian heiress who will be forced to choose between the family she's made and the family that made her at the outbreak of World War I**.**
Vienna, 1911. Twenty-one-year-old Greta Goldbaum has always hungered after what's forbidden: secret university lectures, unseemly trumpet lessons, and most of all, the freedom to choose her life's path.
The Goldbaum family has different expectations. United across Europe by unsurpassed wealth and power, Goldbaum men are bankers, while Goldbaum women marry Goldbaum men to produce Goldbaum children. Greta will do her part.
So Greta moves to England to wed Albert, a distant cousin. The marriage is not a success. Yet, when Albert's mother gives Greta a garden, things at Temple Court begin to change. First Greta falls in love with her garden, then with England, and finally...
โฆ Subjects
FICTION -- Sagas
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