NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER The millioncopy bestsellerLilac Girlsintroduced the reallife heroine Caroline Ferriday. NowLost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Carolines mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow of World War I. Not only a brilliant historical tale, but a love song to all the ways our friendships carry us through the worst of times.Lisa Wingate,#1 New York Timesbestselling author ofBefore We Were Yours It is 1914, and the world has been on the brink of war so often, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes. Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a lifetime, home with Sofya to see the splendors of Russia the church with the interior covered in jeweled mosaics, the Rembrandts at the tsars Winter Palace, the famous ballet. But when Austria declares war on Serbia and Russias imperial dynasty begins to fall, Eliza escapes back to America, while Sofya and her family flee to their country estate. In need of domestic help, they hire the local fortunetellers daughter, Varinka, unknowingly bringing intense danger into their household. On the other side of the Atlantic, Eliza is doing her part to help the White Russian families find safety as they escape the revolution. But...

Binding: Paperback;464 pages; Publisher: Random House USA Inc; Classification: FA; Weight: 466 g; Dimensions: 133 x 202 x 32

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