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Warren Adler's The War of the Roses leaped in to the public consciousness and has since continued to be an essential thread in a wider tapestry of divorce iconography. Now Adler reveals us with the chandelier-shattering legacy of Barbara and Jonathan Rose relived in their children, Josh and Evie, in a amusing sequel to the initial iconic story about the perils of relationship, divorce, and the destructive power of materialism. Unlike the legendary Roses, Josh's relationship to Victoria should have all the attributes of an everlasting union. However when an innocent caper relating lacking Milky Ways catapults uncontrollable at their son's elite private institution, they find themselves entering into a shattering warfare of an different kind. Armed with the emotional mayhem inherited using their parents as well as compounded stresses relating a depraved headmaster, clandestine affairs, and Victoria's male-hating mom, The Children of the Roses reveals a gripping account of the measures to which parents goes to safeguard their children. Little more than a child herself, Josh's ever-sympathetic and overstuffed sister, Evie, lavishes her "food is love" obsession on her loved niece and nephew, who are coping with their own sense of loss. In the meantime, Michael and Emily, soon-to-be children of divorce, orchestrate their own intend to keep their family alongside one another at all costs. Adler once again shows his storytelling mastery by uncovering the intricate mixing of days gone by with the present and exactly how time unravels all relatively perfect what to be darkly and even comically dysfunctional.