From Erika Robuck, bestselling author of Hemingway’s
Girl,
comes a brilliant new novel about a literary couple. The
unlikely marriage between Nathaniel Hawthorne, the
celebrated novelist, and Sophia Peabody, the invalid
artist,
was a true union of passion and intellect.…
Beset by crippling headaches from a young age and endowed
with a talent for drawing, Sophia is discouraged by her
well-known New England family from pursuing a woman’s
traditional roles. But from their first meeting,
Nathaniel
and Sophia begin an intense romantic relationship that
despite many setbacks leads to their marriage. Together,
they will cross continents, raise children, and
experience
all the beauty and tragedy of an exceptional partnership.
Sophia’s vivid journals and her masterful paintings
kindle a
fire in Nathaniel, inspiring his writing. But their
children’s needs and the death of loved ones steal
Sophia’s
energy and time for her art, fueling in her a perennial
tug-of-war between fulfilling her domestic duties and
pursuing her own desires.
Spanning the years from the 1830s to the Civil War, and
moving from Massachusetts to England, Portugal, and
Italy,
The House of Hawthorne explores the tension within a
famous
marriage of two soulful, strong-willed people, each
devoted
to the other but also driven by a powerful need to
explore
the far reaches of their creative impulses. It is the
story
of a forgotten woman in history, who inspired one of the
greatest writers of American literature…
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