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Under The Wide And Starry Sky
Nancy Horan
Ballantine Books
February 2014
On Sale: January 21, 2014
496 pages
ISBN: 0345516532
EAN: 9780345516534
Kindle: B00C0ALY9O
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Fiction | Paranormal
From Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author
of Loving Frank, comes her much-anticipated second
novel, which tells the improbable love story of Scottish
writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American
wife, Fanny.
At the age of thirty-five, Fanny
Van de Grift Osbourne has left her philandering husband in
San Francisco to set sail for Belgium—with her three
children and nanny in tow—to study art. It is a chance for
this adventurous woman to start over, to make a better life
for all of them, and to pursue her own desires. Not
long after her arrival, however, tragedy strikes, and Fanny
and her children repair to a quiet artists’ colony in France
where she can recuperate. Emerging from a deep sorrow, she
meets a lively Scot, Robert Louis Stevenson, ten years her
junior, who falls instantly in love with the earthy,
independent, and opinionated “belle Americaine.”
Fanny does not immediately take to the slender young
lawyer who longs to devote his life to writing—and who would
eventually pen such classics as Treasure Island and
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In time,
though, she succumbs to Stevenson’s charms, and the two
begin a fierce love affair—marked by intense joy and
harrowing darkness—that spans the decades and the globe. The
shared life of these two strong-willed individuals unfolds
into an adventure as impassioned and unpredictable as any of
Stevenson’s own unforgettable tales.
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