The Reef
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Publishing Details
The Reef
By (Author) Edith Wharton
Introduction by Marilyn French
Little, Brown Book Group
Virago Press Ltd
16th October 1998
United Kingdom
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Physical Properties
Paperback
368
Width 126mm, Height 198mm, Spine 20mm
426g
Description
Anna Leath is a young widow, an American living in France. Behind her lies an arid marriage and a life deeply influenced by the rigid code of Old New York. Ahead lies new hope: a chance encounter in London with George Darrow, the first love of her youth, has left her awakened, disturbed. Anna returns to her beautiful country chateau to await her future: between two short distances can anything happen to disrupt such promise But the charming Sophie Viner, governess to Anna's young daughter, holds the key to a secret which comes to reveal that Anna's future - and the very foundation of her life - is fragile where it appears most strong.
Reviews
'A complex, subtle and moving story of the ways in which people torment one another and the awful power of retrospective jealousy' PENELOPE LIVELY
Author Bio
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was born in New York. After 1902 she went on to publish an average of more than a book a year for the rest of her life. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE won the Pulitzer Prize in the year it was published, 1920, and was made into a major film in 1993. One of America's greatest novelists, Edith Wharton died in France at the age of seventy-five.
