My summer with George
By: Marilyn French.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Women novelists -- Fiction; Older women -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Romantic love and its power to shake a woman's life at any age is the subject of this new novel by Marilyn French. At the center, Hermione Beldame, in her sixties, a writer of romance novels (eighty-seven of them, an average of two a year for forty years). She is rich, sophisticated, self-made, often di-vorced, long widowed, and long finished with the notion of romantic love as a part of her life. Until, one day, at a party - she sees across the room an attractive man who finds his way to her.

What begins as a charming conversation between two strangers develops into much more (and much less) as the novel charts the course of a brief encounter that disrupts the equilibrium - the hard-won serenity - of its heroine, seizing her heart and her life during her summer with George.