Rated: 9 times. Average rating 4
Reimagines the midlife world of Edith Wharton and the impact of her affair with a young journalist on her longtime friendship with disapproving literary secretary Anna Bahlmann, in a tale told against the vivid backdrops of Gilded Age Paris, the Wharton's elegant home in Lenox and Henry James's English manse. By the author of Lily Beach. 25,000 first printing.