The White Rose / von Krockow

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Author:

Caroline von Krockow

Publication Date:

Editions Prisma
March 2020

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THE WHITE ROSE

Rights Holder: Editions Prisma
Original Language: English

Vivian, a young art student in London, is working on her thesis on an impressionist painter named Maurice Danet and his major work « The White Rose ». For this young woman, the painting is anything but ordinary — it portrays her great-grandmother Marie-Anne who had an affair with the artist. Vivian inherited the painting after her mother’s death but her father sold it without her knowledge.

One day Vivian comes across Marie-Anne’s personal diary in which she describes her difficult life with a cruel mother, the tragedy of her stillborn baby and the misery of having an unloving husband. It’s Maurice Danet who becomes her savior and her diary is filled with the delights of being in love with an artist during the Belle Époque.

Impassioned by the secrets she discovers in the diary, Vivian sets off in search of « The White Rose » with her boyfriend Jérôme.

This breathtaking novel, swimming in art and history, takes us back across time as we find out what Marie-Anne’s fate had in store for her and as Vivian follows clues leading her to the painting.

Caroline von Krockow is an international socialite and polyglot with degrees in copyright law and history. While she is originally German, she and now lives in Paris with her husband and children after having lived in Madrid, New York and London.

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