Nora Elias - A szépségszalon

In her romantic novel, Nora Elias presents the golden age of Berlin with a picturesque sensibility, where two sisters conquer the city and the hearts of men at the same time.

Berlin, 1925. Helena Rosenberg grew up in modest circumstances. One day, he learns that his father, whom he did not know before, included him in his will: he inherited half of the estate, and the other half to his half-brother, whom he had not even heard of until then. Helena leaves the southern German village behind God's back for the sake of the big city, but in Berlin, only her disappointed sister, Charlotte, and the family pharmacy, which is on the edge of ruin, await her. However, the resourceful young woman knows no obstacles and soon comes up with a great business idea: she makes and sells her own cosmetics. There is only one problem: Charlotte, an educated pharmacist, does not believe in beautifying miracle drugs, and she is not willing to accept the transformation of the pharmacy either. The events take an unexpected turn when the pharmaceutical tycoon - and in one person the main creditor of the family company - Dominik Lichtenthal appears on the scene and starts beating the wind on Helena.

As the sisters find their place in both their business and private lives, the lively, free, cosmopolitan side of Berlin is revealed to them. But threatening dark clouds are already gathering over the city...