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Also by Elizabeth Berg:

Never Change, August 2022
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The Confession Club, November 2019
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Night of Miracles, August 2019
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The Dream Lover, April 2015
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Once Upon a Time, There Was You, October 2011
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The Year of Pleasures, April 2006
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Say When, April 2004
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The Pull of the Moon, October 2000
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THE DREAM LOVER
By: Elizabeth Berg

Random House
April 2015
On Sale: April 14, 2015
Featuring: Aurore Dupin; Gustave Flaubert; Frederic Chopin
ISBN: 0812993152
EAN: 9780812993158
Kindle: B00LYXSNTC
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction | Historical

At the beginning of this powerful novel, we meet Aurore Dupin as she is leaving her estranged husband, a loveless marriage, and her family’s estate in the French countryside to start a new life in Paris. There, she gives herself a new name—George Sand—and pursues her dream of becoming a writer, embracing an unconventional and even scandalous lifestyle.

Paris in the nineteenth-century comes vividly alive, illuminated by the story of the loves, passions, and fierce struggles of a woman who defied the confines of society. Sand’s many lovers and friends include Frédéric Chopin, Gustave Flaubert, Franz Liszt, Eugène Delacroix, Victor Hugo, Marie Dorval, and Alfred de Musset. As Sand welcomes fame and friendship, she fights to overcome heartbreak and prejudice, failure and loss. Though considered the most gifted genius of her time, she works to reconcile the pain of her childhood, of disturbing relationships with her mother and daughter, and of her intimacies with women and men. Will the life she longs for always be just out of reach—a dream?

Brilliantly written in luminous prose, and with remarkable insights into the heart and mind of a literary force, The Dream Lover tells the unforgettable story of a courageous, irresistible woman.