Like so many other books, The Velvet Hours by Alyson Richman is a story of two women across time. In this case, the book is a fictionalized story of an actual Paris apartment and two actual women - Marthe de Florian and her granddaughter Solange Beaugiron. As with many of these books, the story goes back and forth between the two times and two lives. The questions the book does not answer are as intriguing if not more so than the story it does tell.
Read my complete review at http://www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2016/09/the-velvet-hours.html.
Reviewed based on a publisher's galley received through NetGalley.
Read my complete review at http://www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2016/09/the-velvet-hours.html.
Reviewed based on a publisher's galley received through NetGalley.
This book is based on a true Story.Madame Marthe de Florian a courtesan who saved valuable Art objects asked her granddaughter Solange Beaugiron to close her Paris apartment and leave it as it was. Solange left the apartment to her children and it was sealed off for 70 years. Solange was engaged to a young Jewish man and they had to flee France to avoid death by the Germans.They went to the United States on a ship and emigrated permanently.
