Description: The colorful story of Alva and Consuelo Vanderbilt and their adventures on both sides of the Atlantic--in an age of callousness and ambition, material extravagance and excess--is told through their mother-daughter relationship and their mutual quest for self-determination in the glittering empty world of the Gilded Age.
Review Quotes:
'Skilfully and sympathetically told by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart...It is brilliant...Mackenzie Stuart has treated us to some marvellous vignettes of life at Blenheim in the "Gilded Age".' Antonia Fraser, The Times
'A dual life story that reads as pleasurably as the best fiction but with all the intelligence of a first-rate biography...completely absorbing.' Amanda Foreman
'It moves, entertains and intrigues.' Independent on Sunday
'[...]an intelligent, insightful and highly readable book about the gilded cage of aristocratic marriage.' Daily Mail
'The story of Consuelo and Alva has everything: glamour, money, gossip, intrigue and pathos.' Harpers & Queen