Rosetta

I very much enjoyed Rosetta by Alexandra Joel.  This is a biography of the author's great-grandmother who was born in Melbourne in the late 19th century.  She "marries well" and later leaves her husband and her five-year-old daughter to pursue an unconventional life.  Rosetta was beautiful and her life never seemed boring.  She marries again and she and her husband eventually travel to Europe after "reinventing" themselves.  They move in illustrious circles in the years before World War I.  The author had a wealth of information to draw upon in her quest to discover who Rosetta was.  Rosetta's story is interwoven with the story of how the author found the nuggets she used to write the story.  Highly recommended. 41/2/5