num_pages: 400
description: A heartrending story about a young mothers fight to keep her daughter and the winds of fortune that tear them apart by the New York Times bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things and The Last Year of the War. California 1938When she loses her parents in an accident sixteen-year-old Rosanne is taken in by the owners of the vineyard where she has lived her whole life as the vinedressers daughter. She moves into Celine and Truman Calverts spacious house with a secret howeverRosie sees colors when she hears sound. She promised her mother shed never reveal her little-understood ability to anyone but the weight of her isolation and grief prove too much for her. Driven by her loneliness she not only breaks the vow to her mother but in a desperate moment lets down her guard and ends up pregnant. Banished by the Calverts Rosanne believes she is bound for a home for unwed mothers and having lost her family she treasures her pregnancy as the chance for a future one. But she soon finds out she is not going to a home of any kind but to a place far worse than anything she could have imagined. Austria 1947After witnessing firsthand Adolf Hitlers brutal pursuit of hereditary purityespecially with regard to different childrenHelen Calvert Truman's sister is ready to return to America for good. But when she arrives at her brothers peaceful vineyard after decades working abroad she is shocked to learn what really happened nine years earlier to the vinedressers daughter a girl whom Helen had long ago befriended. In her determination to find Rosanne Helen discovers that while the war had been won in Europe there are still terrifying battles to be fought at home.
language: English
title: Only the Beautiful
publisher: Berkley