Becoming George Sand

Maria Jameson is having an affair a passionate, life-changing affair. She asks: Is it possible to love two men at once? Must this new romance mean an end to love with her husband? For answers, she reaches across the centuries to George Sand, the maverick French novelist who took many lovers. Immersing herself in the life of this revolutionary woman, Maria struggles with the choices women make and wonders if women in the nineteenth century might have been more free, in some ways, than their twenty-first century counterparts.Rosalind Brackenbury'sBecoming George Sandis a beautiful portrait of the ways in which women are connected across history. Two narratives delicately intertwineGeorge's affair with Frederic Chopin, Maria's affair with an Irish professorto create anovel that explores the personal as well as historic, the demands of self and the mysteries of the heart. Brackenbury asks how we make our lives vibrant while still acknowledging the gifts of our pasts, and challenges our understanding of love in all its formssparkling and new, mature, rekindled, renewed. Sharply insightful,Becoming George Sandis a deeply engaging examination of the nature of being a woman in love.