Rosamond Cadden
(2026)(The first book in the Daughters of the Armistice series)
A novel by Hannah Byron
‘Before all this, before the war and the devastation, I had a family. I had a future.’
Bloomsbury, London, 1919. The Armistice is signed, the bells have rung, and London is learning to breathe again. Everyone, it seems, but Rosamond Cadden.
The celebrated young novelist has lost her mother, her unborn child, and her husband Reggie — missing in France, mourned without a grave. Her name was made with words; now not one will come. But grief has found her a remedy that carries her to a sunlit farm in Suffolk where no one has died and nothing hurts. Each visit is more beautiful than the last. Or so it seems.
When her sister discovers how far she has drifted, Rosamond swears a desperate oath: to lie on the couch of her brother-in-law, Otto Schiller, a Viennese psychoanalyst — and to fight for her own mind. Session by session, the White Rose she once was struggles against the Black Rose she was becoming.
Her fight will lead her, by the most unlikely of roads, to news she'd never dared hope for in a million years.
Rosamond Cadden opens Daughters of the Armistice. Four more women of her far-flung family will follow her onto the page — a bride, a racing driver, a dreamer, a fighter — and it is Rosamond herself, pen in hand, who will tell their stories. This is where the chronicle begins.
Genre: Historical
Bloomsbury, London, 1919. The Armistice is signed, the bells have rung, and London is learning to breathe again. Everyone, it seems, but Rosamond Cadden.
The celebrated young novelist has lost her mother, her unborn child, and her husband Reggie — missing in France, mourned without a grave. Her name was made with words; now not one will come. But grief has found her a remedy that carries her to a sunlit farm in Suffolk where no one has died and nothing hurts. Each visit is more beautiful than the last. Or so it seems.
When her sister discovers how far she has drifted, Rosamond swears a desperate oath: to lie on the couch of her brother-in-law, Otto Schiller, a Viennese psychoanalyst — and to fight for her own mind. Session by session, the White Rose she once was struggles against the Black Rose she was becoming.
Her fight will lead her, by the most unlikely of roads, to news she'd never dared hope for in a million years.
Rosamond Cadden opens Daughters of the Armistice. Four more women of her far-flung family will follow her onto the page — a bride, a racing driver, a dreamer, a fighter — and it is Rosamond herself, pen in hand, who will tell their stories. This is where the chronicle begins.
Genre: Historical
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