Fallen Beauty
  • Published: 23 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780451418906
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $34.99

Fallen Beauty

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The author of HEMINGWAY'S GIRL and CALL ME ZELDA returns with another fascinating novel featuring a literary figure, this time charismatic poet from the 1930s, Edna St. Vincent Millay.

“Without sin, can we know beauty? Can we fully appreciate the summer without the winter? No, I am glad to suffer so I can feel the fullness of our time in the light.”

Upstate New York, 1928. Laura Kelley and the man she loves sneak away from their judgmental town to attend a performance of the scandalous Ziegfeld Follies. But the dark consequences of their night of daring and delight reach far into the future.…

That same evening, Bohemian poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and her indulgent husband hold a wild party in their remote mountain estate, hoping to inspire her muse. Millay declares her wish for a new lover who will take her to unparalleled heights of passion and poetry, but for the first time, the man who responds will not bend completely to her will.…

Two years later, Laura, an unwed seamstress struggling to support her daughter, and Millay, a woman fighting the passage of time, work together secretly to create costumes for Millay’s next grand tour. As their complex, often uneasy friendship develops amid growing local condemnation, each woman is forced to confront what it means to be a fallen woman…and to decide for herself what price she is willing to pay to live a full life.

“Lovers of the Jazz Age, literary enthusiasts, and general historic fiction readers will find much to love about Call Me Zelda. Highly recommended.” –Historical Novel Society, Editors’ Choice
  • Published: 23 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780451418906
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

Erika Robuck

ERIKA ROBUCK is a national bestselling author of novels Sisters of Night and Fog, The Invisible Woman, The House of Hawthorne, Fallen Beauty, Call Me Zelda, Hemingway's Girl, and Receive Me Falling. Erika was once named Annapolis’ Author of the Year, and she resides there with her husband, three sons, and a feisty miniature schnauzer.

Also by Erika Robuck

The Last Twelve Miles
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Praise for Fallen Beauty

"In this richly imagined story, Erika Robuck has captured the creative brilliance and madness of Zelda Fitzgerald. Told through the eyes of a compassionate psychiatric nurse, Call Me Zelda is an unsettling yet tender portrayal of two women inextricably bound by hope and tragedy.
--Beth Hoffman, New York Times bestselling author of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt and Looking for Me


Praise for CALL ME ZELDA
"You thought you knew everything about the Fitzgeralds, their drama, delight, dazzle and despair? This gem of a novel spins a different, touching story, drawing you right into their intimacy and fragility through the eyes of Zelda's caring nurse, Anna. You will love it, as I absolutely did."
--Tatiana de Rosnay, New York Times Bestselling Author of Sarah's Key and The House I Loved

Praise for HEMINGWAY'S GIRL:
"Robuck's breathtaking alchemy is to put us inside the world of Hemingway and his wife Pauline, and add a bold young woman to the mix with a story uniquely her own. Dazzlingly written and impossibly moving, this novel is a supernova." --Caroline Leavitt, New York Times best selling author of Pictures of You

"Even if you aren't a Hemingway aficionado, you'll love this robust, tender story of love, grief, and survival on Key West in the 1930s. And Hemingway fans should agree that because of its strong heroine and writing, Hemingway's Girlis a novel of which Papa himself would approve. Addictive." --Jenna Blum, New York Times Bestselling Author of Those Who Save Us and The Stormchasers

"Writing in clear and supple prose, Erika Robuck evokes a setting of the greatest fascination Hemingway's household in Key West in the 1930's, where we see her captivating heroine growing in insight and beginning to learn about love. This is assured and richly enjoyable storytelling." --Margaret Leroy, author of The Soldier's Wife

"In this haunting and beautifully atmospheric novel, Erika Robuck pulls back the curtain on the Jazz Age's most shining couple and offers up a sobering account of the casualties of genius and celebrity. She brilliantly brings Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald to life in all their doomed beauty, with compelling and unforgettable results."
--Alex George, Author of A Good American