Jane is forty-three and, as the narrator puts it, her life is already finished. Years earlier she came from America to marry Philibert into an ancient French noble family ruled by the exquisite, manipulative Maman, and the story recounts how that world absorbed her money, her energy and her hopes while never quite accepting her.
A cool, perceptive 1923 novel of transatlantic marriage, in the vein of Henry James and Edith Wharton. Download the free EPUB.