num_pages: 150
description: To the people of Sweet Water, a fading railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs. Forrester is the resident aristocrat, at once gracious and comfortably remote. To her aging husband she is a treasure whose value increases as his powers fail. To Niel Herbert, who falls in love with her as a boy and becomes her confidant as a man, Mrs. Forrester is by turns steadfast and faithless, dazzling and pathetic: a woman whose charm is intertwined with a terrifying vulnerability.
language: English
title: A Lost Lady
titlecomplete: A Lost Lady
characters: Mr Forrester, Mrs Forrester, Niel Herbert, Ivy Peters
genres: Fiction, Historical, American, Literature, Read For School, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 6780
places: Nebraska
publisher: Vintage