Kate Clephane left her husband and infant daughter years ago and has drifted through the shabby hotels of the Riviera ever since. Summoned home to New York by that grown daughter, Anne, she is given a second chance at motherhood, until a man from her own past reappears in Anne’s life.
One of Wharton’s most searching late novels, a study of guilt, love and the price of respectability. Download the free EPUB.