Rosa Havelka is a woman of her time. From a Prague orphanage to the bedrooms of the Austro-Hungarian court, from impersonations of the Empress Sisi to imprisonment for murder, Rosa shines through the sordid glamour of fin de siecle Vienna, and makes it her own. Vienna Passion is a stylish, shocking and witty novel of mistresses, music, unhealthy obsessions, and a very unsentimental education.