A Certain Age

Book 15 of my 2018 Reading Challenge

**I received a copy of this book via a Goodreads giveaway and would like to thank the author and/or publisher for the opportunity to read and honestly review it**

A Certain Age by Beatriz Williams

Summary (via the book jacket)
As the hedonism of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent Mrs. Theresa Marshall of Fifth Avenue and Southhampton, Long Island, has done the unthinkable: she's fallen in love with her young paramour, Captain Octavian Rofrano, an aviator and a hero of the Great War.
Though the battle-scarred Octavian is devoted to his dazzling socialite of a certain age and wants to marry her, Theresa resists. The old world is crumbling, but divorce for a woman of Theresa's wealth and social standing remains a high-stakes affair. And there is no need: she shares a gentle understanding with Sylvo, the well-bred philanderer to whom she's already married.
That is, until Theresa's impecunious bachelor brother, Ox, decides to tie the knot with Miss Sophie Fortescue, the native young daughter of a wealthy inventor. Theresa enlists Octavian to check into the background of the reclusive Fortescue family. When Octavian meets Sophie, he falls under the spell of the charming ingenue, even as he uncovers a devastating family secret.
As a fateful triangle forms, loyalties divide and old crimes are dragged into daylights, drawing Octavian into transgression...and Theresa into the jaws of a bittersweet choice.

My Opinion
I enjoyed the writing and will read the author again but felt the big reveal of this particular story was too big a reach.  I had wondered about it early on so I saw it coming but it was also a surprise because I dismissed it as completely implausible.

I love this saying from Helen Rowland: "Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food, and then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him."