The Prodigal Daughter

Name: The Prodigal Daughter
Rating: 4.05 (55136 reviews)

by Jeffrey Archer Book 2 in the Kane and Abel Series series.

First published 1982

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Florentyna Rosnovski grows up between the privileges created by her father Abel’s hotel empire and the restrictions placed on an ambitious woman in mid-century America. Her love for Richard Kane, son of Abel’s greatest enemy, turns a private relationship into a challenge to both families. Together they develop a retail business while Florentyna begins to see elected office as a means of shaping the country rather than merely inheriting wealth.

Her career advances from local campaigning to Congress and the Senate as the United States confronts civil-rights struggles, the Vietnam War and changing expectations of women in public life. Political compromise, family tragedy and the old Kane–Rosnovski feud repeatedly threaten her progress. The novel extends the family saga into an account of a woman seeking the presidency while deciding how much of her father’s methods and ambition she is willing to inherit.