Under the wide and starry sky

Description:

"In her new novel, Nancy Horan chronicles the unconventional love affair of Scottish literary giant Robert Louis Stevenson and American divorcee Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne. They meet in rural France in 1875, when Fanny, having run away from her philandering husband back in California, takes refuge there with her children. Stevenson too is escaping from his life, running from family pressure to become a lawyer. And so begins a turbulent love affair that will last two decades and span the world."--

subjects: Fiction,  Authors,  Women artists,  Biographical fiction,  Historical fiction,  FICTION / Historical,  FICTION / Literary,  FICTION / Contemporary Women,  nyt:hardcover-fiction=2014-02-09,  New York Times bestseller,  Fiction, biographical,  Authors, fiction,  Fiction, romance, historical,  Fiction, historical, general,  Married people, fiction,  Women travelers,  Authors' spouses,  Remarriage,  Man-woman relationships

People: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894),  Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (1840-1914)