Book Details
Title: Rosetta; A Scandalous True Story
Author: Alexandra Joel
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Vintage Books
Year: 2016
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 328
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 978-0-14-378047-2
Battle Scars:
Outside:
Paperback cover is of good read condition. Minor wear to corners. Mild scuffing. There is an old price sticker stuck to the bottom of the rear cover.
Binding is firm and intact.
Inside:
Pages appear in good shape.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"Headstrong and beautiful, in 1905 Rosetta escaped her safe Melbourne life, deserting her respectable husband and five-year-old daughter to run away with Zeno the Magnificent, a half-Chinese fortune teller and seducer of souls.
The pair reinvented themselves in London, where they beguiled European society and risked everything for a life of glamour and desire. Rosetta said she was American; Zeno claimed to be a brilliant Japanese professor. Together they attracted the patronage of famous writers, inventors and scientists, lords and ladies, dukes and duchesses.
Rosetta revelled in a life few women of her time would have dared to embrace, yet all the while she hid her secret shame: the daughter she left behind.
This is the compelling story of Alexandra Joel's quest to uncover the truth about her scandalous great-grandmother, and the shocking century-old secret she would discover at the heart of her family."
Book Details
Title: Rosetta; A Scandalous True Story
Author: Alexandra Joel
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Vintage Books
Year: 2016
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 328
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 978-0-14-378047-2
Battle Scars:
Outside:
Paperback cover is of good read condition. Minor wear to corners. Mild scuffing. There is an old price sticker stuck to the bottom of the rear cover.
Binding is firm and intact.
Inside:
Pages appear in good shape.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"Headstrong and beautiful, in 1905 Rosetta escaped her safe Melbourne life, deserting her respectable husband and five-year-old daughter to run away with Zeno the Magnificent, a half-Chinese fortune teller and seducer of souls.
The pair reinvented themselves in London, where they beguiled European society and risked everything for a life of glamour and desire. Rosetta said she was American; Zeno claimed to be a brilliant Japanese professor. Together they attracted the patronage of famous writers, inventors and scientists, lords and ladies, dukes and duchesses.
Rosetta revelled in a life few women of her time would have dared to embrace, yet all the while she hid her secret shame: the daughter she left behind.
This is the compelling story of Alexandra Joel's quest to uncover the truth about her scandalous great-grandmother, and the shocking century-old secret she would discover at the heart of her family."
