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At a turn-of-the-century coastal resort in New Hampshire, young Olympia Biddeford is drawn into an intense love affair with a much older man, John Haskell, a married physician and activist, an affair that has a profound and long-reaching impact on everyone around them.
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Everywhere hailed for its emotional intensity and unflagging narrative momentum, this magnificent novel transports us to the turn of the twentieth century, to the world of a prominent Boston family summering on the New Hampshire coast, and to the social orbit of a spirited young woman who falls into a passionate, illicit affair with an older man, with cataclysmic results.
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