Rose and her mother lived a life of poverty after her father died.
She and her mother would wrap up violets for a florist for next to nothing. The pay wouldn’t even keep them in food for a week.
One morning as Rose and her mother were wrapping violets her mother died, and Rose was left to the mercy of child services.
She had a very kind woman at the orphanage and didn’t want to leave when Lucian wanted to adopt her so his daughter would have a sister.
Rose didn’t know if she was worse off at the house than at the orphanage because her sister Emma was very mean to her.
After their father went bankrupt, he killed himself and Emma and Rose were on their way to New York City to their aunt’s when the Great Blizzard of 1888 hit.
We follow Rose who now took her sister’s name and is upset with herself because she is pretending to be Emma and lying to her aunt.
You will love Rose/Emma and be happy for her.
Ms. Friedman has written another marvelous book that I didn’t want to put down.
Her writing flows so well and puts you right into the scenes in the book.
It is a lovely story as well as a history lesson. 5/5
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