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"We are drawn especially to the fascinating, flawed Caro Bell, whose desire to live a noble life is complicated by her childhood in thrall to an older half-sister, a Dickensian villain equal parts hilarious and horrifying; the limitations and indignities stifling all of the book’s women; and the devastating consequences of her own heart’s choices. Though accomplished in the world of international politics, Caro is stymied, and her life is shaped by the men in it: a shabby astronomer, Ted Tice, whose hopeless, enduring love is imbued with the mythology of Orpheus and Eurydice; the charming playwright Paul Ivory, whose magnetism and betrayals drag her perilously off course, and Adam Vail, whose American candor, wealth, and pursuit of justice allow her a meaningful period of happiness. Though we follow Caro’s sister, Grace, into her marriage with a pompous bureaucrat, it is Caro’s many reversals of fortune that propel the novel."
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