The Age of Desire

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Description

She is the darling of Parisian society. A famous author whose novels have captivated readers. He is a charming young journalist with nothing to lose.While novelist Edith Wharton writes of grand love affairs, she has yet to experience her own. Her marriage is more platonic than passionate and her closest relationship is with her literary secretary, Anna Bahlmann. Then Edith meets dashing Morton Fullerton, and her life is at last opened to the world of the sensual. But in giving in to the temptation of their illicit liaison, Edith could lose everything else she holds dear…

Additional information

Weight 0.252 kg
Dimensions 2.3 × 12.6 × 19.8 cm
by

Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

368

Publisher

Year Published

2018-2-22

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

178503801X

About The Author

Jennie Fields received an M.A. in creative writing from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the author of the novels Lily Beach, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, and The Middle Ages. An Illinois native, she spent 25 years as an advertising creative director in New York and currently lives with her husband in Nashville, Tennessee.

Review Quote

Beautiful … an imaginative tour-de-force with the best-written naughty bits I have ever read.

Other text

A fascinating insight into the life of my favourite novelist. Fields brings a secret side of Wharton to life, and shows us a woman whose elegant façade concealed a turbulent sensuality