Magnolia Palace, The: A Novel

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While the Frick family seemed to have it all, the unveiling of secrets and schemes within their house was interesting. The parallel story line in The Magnolia Palace is from Veronica's perspective and is fifty years later. I listened to the audiobook of The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis that was pleasantly narrated by Karissa Vacker. Inside the apartment, the soup roiling in her gut, she filled a glass with water and sat down at the tiny table in the kitchen.

Compared to her other novels, this one seemed more centered around the characters rather than the landmark, in this case the Frick mansion. Her writing, such beautifully crafted, just draws you into the story and you don’t want to set the book aside.

Davis walks us across an unexpected bridge of thought that spans from 1919 after the Great War and its impact on society to the Mod Years of the 1960's and beyond. Both of the young female main characters are models with unstable financial situations, without anyone to depend on other than themselves. Set against the backdrop of the art-filled Frick Mansion, a renowned sculptor’s muse, hiding in plain sight as a private secretary, finds herself in the middle of Frick family drama and entangled in a web of accusations. in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter.

Posing for sculptors etched into history forever, was a model "Angelica" at 21 years old her life falls apart when her landlord makes advances on her to help her cover her rent.Lillian happens upon a chance to hid at the Frick mansion when she is offered a job as the personal secretary to Helen Clay Frick daughter of wealthy Henry Clay Frick. What I loved most about this book was that it sent me scouring Google for more information on the Frick Museum and Audrey Munson, on whom Lillian's character is loosely based. With mother monitoring nearby, Lillian poses for breathtaking statues during the Beaux Arts period in New York City.

A can’t-miss for anyone who has sauntered through an art museum and found themselves tempted to peek behind a painting or two . In The Magnolia Palace, two very different women from two eras enter the Gilded Age realm of famous industrialist and art collector Henry Clay Frick and his imperious daughter Helen and become part of a thrilling mystery centered on the Frick mansion that stretches through the decades.Veronica was in the Frick Museum for a photo shoot when she was sent out of the room and then became lost in the mansion. I had trouble putting it down as I became involved in Lillian's predicament of being so entrenched in the Frick family instead of following her dream of being a Hollywood star. Since 2007, Austenprose has championed Jane Austen and her legacy by featuring information about her life, work, and times. The story is told in two timelines- one in 1919 following a young woman who has been a popular muse for sculptors and artists, who ends up hiding out from the police as personal secretary to one of the Frick family.