{"id":3875,"date":"2015-08-06T18:30:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T18:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3875"},"modified":"2015-08-06T18:30:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T18:30:23","slug":"the-secret-life-of-violet-grant-by-beatriz-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3875","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3898\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3898\" style=\"width: 132px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1562046\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3898\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/The-Secret-Life-of-Violet-Grant-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Secret Life of Violet Grant\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/The-Secret-Life-of-Violet-Grant-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/The-Secret-Life-of-Violet-Grant.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 132px) 100vw, 132px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This novel tells the alternating stories of Vivian in 1964 and Violet in 1914. \u00a0One morning, Vivian receives a strange parcel in the mail that leads her on a path to finding more about her family&#8217;s past and a mysterious aunt named Violet.<\/p>\n<p>Violet is working in 1914 as a female physicist in prewar Germany under the watchful eye of Dr. Grant, whom she ends up marrying. \u00a0The summer that she meets Lionel Richardson, a captain in the British army, Violet&#8217;s life changes forever.<\/p>\n<p>Vivian is working as a journalist in 1964 and begins researching more about Violet&#8217;s life for a newspaper article. \u00a0She learns some family secrets along the way.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed this book. \u00a0I love books about family secrets, and I enjoy the format, the switching between the past and present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This novel tells the alternating stories of Vivian in 1964 and Violet in 1914. \u00a0One morning, Vivian receives a strange parcel in the mail that leads her on a path to finding more about her family&#8217;s past and a mysterious aunt named Violet. Violet is working in 1914 as a female physicist in prewar Germany &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3875\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-selena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}