A review by kfish3
The Second Mrs. Astor by Shana Abe

4.0

The Second Mrs Astor by Shana Abe is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in early August.

Ahh, I hadn’t known that I would be reading this book so soon after finishing Maiden Voyages about female employees aboard oceanliners, such as the Titanic. This, however, is the quite, quite romanticized fainting couch viewpoint of Madeleine as a partway first-person letter to her infant son about his father and partway a third-person history of how they crossed paths, married for love, experienced social turmoil and exclusion, then went for their honeymoon in Egypt, Turkey, and France to come back the US on the Titanic. Much etiquette, luxury, sweet words, and intensive emotional/sensory memories.