Review: The Ashford Affair by Lauren Willig

Title: The Ashford Affair

Author: Lauren Willig

Genre:  Family History and Secrets

Pages: 358 (listened to audiobook)

Published: 2013

Clementine (Clemmie) Evans is a Manhattan lawyer up for partnership in her firm. She has put in long hours towards achieving the partnership, she thinks she wants. But relationships have suffered along the way; her fiancé ended their engagement and  she hasn’t kept in touch with her family as much as she would like. That’s why Clemmie is startled to see her grandmother Addie’s  condition at her 99^th birthday party.  At the party, a relative lets slip about a long-buried family secret, Clemmie goes on a journey into the past.  

Addie never quite belonged, when her parents die and she is taken in by her aristocratic aunt and uncle in the early twentieth century, she is raised with her cousin Bea. They are as different as night and day and become closer than sisters.  Addie and Bea’s journey goes from the inner circles of British society to the bustle of Manhattan and the red-dirt hills of Kenya. 

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Reviewed by Cathy

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