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The best-selling writer of A Hundred Summers brings the Roaring '20s brilliantly to life in this enchanting and compulsively listenable tale of intrigue, love, and scandal in NY society, filled with lush atmosphere, dazzling characters, and amazing charm. As the liberty of the Jazz Age group transforms New York City, the iridescent Mrs. Theresa Marshall of Fifth Avenue and Southampton, Long Island, has done the unthinkable: She's fallen in love with her young paramour, Captain Octavian Rofrano, a attractive aviator and hero of the Great War. An intense and deeply honorable man, Octavian is devoted to the stunning socialite of a certain get older and desires to marry her. While times are changing and she does adore the Youngster, divorce for a woman of Theresa's riches and social standing up is out of the question, and you don't have; she has an understanding with Sylvo, her large and well-respected philanderer husband. But their romantic relationship subtly shifts when her bachelor brother, Ox, makes a decision to get married with the sugary younger daughter of a newly prosperous inventor. Interesting a longstanding family custom, Theresa enlists the Youngster to act as her brother's cavalier, presenting the family's gemstone rose band to Ox's expected, Miss Sophie Fortescue - and to check in to the track record of the little-known Fortescue family. When Octavian meets Sophie, he comes under the spell of the pretty ingénue, even as he uncovers a stunning family key. As the love triangle of Theresa, Octavian, and Sophie advances, it changes into a saga of divided loyalties, dangerous revelations, and unusual twists that will lead to a stunning transgression...and eventually force Theresa to produce a bittersweet choice. Full of the glamour, wit, and delightful twists that are the hallmarks of Beatriz Williams' fiction, and alternating between Sophie's spirited voice and Theresa's radiant timbre, A Certain Age group is a beguiling reinterpretation of Richard Strauss' comic opera Der Rosenkavalier, placed up against the sweeping decadence of Gatsby's NY.
