The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire Classics_Gift_Guide which follows aspiring writer Betsy

which follows aspiring writer Betsy Ray and her friends from the age of five through to Betsy's post-high school travel in pre-WWI Europe and her wedding

but with her husband fighting overseas

you should probably just forget I told you

and looks to the future as the voice of a movement that will define a generation

The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire Classics_Gift_Guide which follows aspiring writer BetsyA spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and tradecotton, opium, shipping, bankingthat reached across three continents and ultimately changed the destinies of nations. With full access to rare family photographs and archives. Engaging compelling well paced and supremely satisfying. The New York Times