num_pages: 666
description: The sparkling cascade of diamonds was designed to adorn the women who married into one of England's most prominent families - a symbol of the wealth and privilege enjoyed by the Firths of Yorkshire. Instead the magnificent necklace would come to burden the women who wore it, becoming for them am emblem of bondage and inherited tragedy.Three generations' lives and destinies are linked through blood and inheritance of this priceless heirloom.Lily Greene, star of the London stage, who in 1898 weds the enigmatic Sir Robert Firth, and for whom the Diamond Waterfall comes to symbolize a state of degradation and humiliation she never imagined possible.Her daughter Sylvia, who is married for her fabulous legacy and leads a life of love and torment.And Willow Gilmartin, who in the spring of 1945 removes the Diamond Waterfall from its bed of ivory satin - and at last claims a heritage that has for so long eluded others.
language: English
title: The Diamond Waterfall
titlecomplete: The Diamond Waterfall
genres: Fiction, Historical
ratings_count: 46
publisher: Diamond Books