The Queen of Beauty

The Century Trilogy, Book 3

By: Petra Durst-Benning, Edwin Miles - translator

Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden

Petra Durst-Benning's captivating historical novel pays homage to the trailblazing women of the early twentieth century - like Elizabeth Arden and Estée Lauder - who shaped culture, shattered convention, and strived to make the world around them more beautiful.

Despite all that Clara Berg has achieved as a wife, mother, and chemist - especially for a woman in turn-of-the-century Berlin - ending her abusive marriage comes at great cost. The judge hands her inheritance - her parents' pharmacy - over to her ex-husband. Now, with her reputation in near ruins thanks to the scandal that rocked her marriage, no reputable chemist will hire her. Worst of all, she has lost all rights to her young son and daughter. Only her dearest friends, Josephine and Isabelle, themselves no strangers to hardship, remain steadfast.

With their encouragement, Clara decides to start over in the spa town of Lake Constance, where she creates a homemade cream and launches a cosmetics revolution. Against all convention, she teaches other women and herself how to face the challenges of each new day with confidence and beauty. Soon her renown brings prestige, professional accolades, even new romance. But through it all, her heart beats for her beloved children - will success finally bring the reunion she longs for?

©2015 Petra Durst-Benning & Ullstein Buchverlag GmbH. (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Translation © 2017 Edwin Miles.

Great read!

I enjoyed all three books in this series. They all kept my interest. I will watch for more by this author.

Read the Trilogy!

Great book series. I am a ceramacist who goes through audio books like water. These are 3 of my favorites. They serve to remind me how far womwn have come. Thank you Petra Durst-Benning!

Interesting, thought provoking

This author does an excellent job writing about the plight of women. I recommend this book highly.

Another great one.

Ms. Durst-Nemning has done it again! I just love her characters and the historical accuracy in which they exist. Strong women, overcoming seemingly insurmountablr obstacles. Doesn't get any better than that

turn off the century women

this was a wonderful end for the series and had left me wishing there was more of the story of the 3 friends to read about