The Age of Desire / Jennie Fields / 352 pages

This is a moving account of author Edith Wharton's life in turn-of-the-century Paris, New York, and Lenox, Massachusetts (The Mount).  Interwoven are Edith's real letters and diary entries as she attempts to come to terms with her difficult mother's legacy, her mistaken marriage to Teddy, her disastrous affair with Morton Fullerton, and her lifelong friendship with Anna Bahlmann, her governess/ secretary.