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The best-selling author of A Hundred Summers brings the Roaring '20s brilliantly to life in this enchanting and compulsively listenable tale of intrigue, romance, and scandal in New York society, brimming with lush atmosphere, striking characters, and irresistible charm.
As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent Mrs. Theresa Marshall of Fifth Avenue and Southampton, Long Island, has done the unthinkable: She's fallen in love with her young paramour, Captain Octavian Rofrano, a handsome aviator and hero of the Great War. An intense and deeply honorable man, Octavian is devoted to the beautiful socialite of a certain age and wants to marry her. While times are changing and she does adore the Boy, divorce for a woman of Theresa's wealth and social standing is out of the question, and there is no need; she has an understanding with Sylvo, her generous and well-respected philanderer husband.
But their relationship subtly shifts when her bachelor brother, Ox, decides to tie the knot with the sweet younger daughter of a newly wealthy inventor. Engaging a longstanding family tradition, Theresa enlists the Boy to act as her brother's cavalier, presenting the family's diamond rose ring to Ox's intended, Miss Sophie Fortescue - and to check in to the background of the little-known Fortescue family. When Octavian meets Sophie, he falls under the spell of the pretty ingénue, even as he uncovers a shocking family secret. As the love triangle of Theresa, Octavian, and Sophie progresses, it transforms into a saga of divided loyalties, dangerous revelations, and surprising twists that will lead to a shocking transgression...and eventually force Theresa to make a bittersweet choice.
Full of the glamour, wit, and delicious twists that are the hallmarks of Beatriz Williams' fiction, and alternating between Sophie's spirited voice and Theresa's vibrant timbre, A Certain Age is a beguiling reinterpretation of Richard Strauss' comic opera Der Rosenkavalier, set against the sweeping decadence of Gatsby's New York.
©2016 Beatriz Williams (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers
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2 out of 5 stars
By Brit Joy on 07-11-16

Boring, Slow and Terrible Narration

What would have made A Certain Age better?

Anything. I LOVE Ms. Williams, but I am unsure where this book came from. It is far from her normal work and honestly I can't even believe she wrote it. Her other books are filled with smart whit, can be laugh out loud funny and sad all at the same time, and her signature shock and awe the whole way through leading up to a great end, is what I love most about her. This book was none of that. Super anticlimactic, boring and the girl's voice who read for Sophie was TERRIBLE!

Would you ever listen to anything by Beatriz Williams again?

I hope to if she gets back into her rhythm.

What didn’t you like about the narrators’s performance?

The woman who read Tereasa was fine, and same with the newspaper woman, but Sophie's narrator tried to be Daisy-esque (from Gatsby) I am guessing and it did not work out well. Her blasé tone made it to where you couldn't detect any emotion in her words. This in turn, evoked no emotion for me and made me extremely bored and unable to get interested in the novel.

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

I like the Liane Moriarty "Big Little Lies" type-feel of the ongoing investigation starting the book off and then consisting throughout the book, but unlike Moriarty, Williams did not pull off the anticipation or excitement. The idea needed to be more thought out instead it seemed sloppy.

Any additional comments?

Let me again say I am a HUGE fan of the Schuyler sisters books, and A Hundred Summers. I did not like The Forgotten Room at all. I will try Ms. Williams one more time, before I completely give up on her.

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4 out of 5 stars
By Liz on 07-08-16

Great Story Horrible Narrator

What made the experience of listening to A Certain Age the most enjoyable?

The storyline was great I love Beatriz Williams books and I was so excited to see references to characters from her past novels. However, the narrator for Sophie's perspective was HORRIBLE she sounded like a robot and made listening to the book almost unbearable.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Usually I am glued to my iPod when i have a new Beatriz Williams audio book but this one I found myself turning off after only a few minutes the narrator for Sophie was so bad.

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

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