The forgotten room
(Large Print)

"A multi-generational novel of love and loss that spans over half a century" 1945. When critically wounded Captain Cooper Ravenal is brought to a private hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Dr. Kate Schuyler discovers that three generations of women in her family are connected to a single extraordinary room in a Gilded Age mansion. Who is the woman in Captain Ravenel's portrait miniature who looks so much like Kate? And why is she wearing the ruby pendant handed down to Kate by her mother? What is the connection to Olive Van Alen, who hired out as a servant in the very house her father designed in the Golden Age? And Lucy Young, who came from Brooklyn to Manhattan in the Jazz Age, in pursuit of the father she had never known?--,Provided by publisher.